I seem to have tracked the problem down. libaccess-bridge-java is a dependency of openjdk-6-jre, and that depends on default-jre | openjdk-jre, so if openjdk-jre is removed, then default-jre is forcably installed. Thus a circular dependency.
One can solve the problem by removing libaccess-bridge-java in conjunction with openjdk. I don't see why libaccess-bridge-java needs to be a dependency since it just provides some additional accessibility for gnome. Could that be changed to a recommends? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org