Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package (circular dependency on openjdk-6-jre-headless?)

2010-11-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
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

Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package

2010-11-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:34:43 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I would appreciate a ruling on whether this bug should be > > release-critical for squeeze? Thank you very much for your time. > > > Regardless of anything else, I think you shouldn't be playing severity > ping pong with package mainta

Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > Regardless of anything else, I think you shouldn't be playing severity > ping pong with package maintainers. Of course. This is why I am deferring to your sage wisdom. I really do my best to avoid BTS ping pong, but when I'm presented with

Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package

2010-11-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 19:19:08 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > openjdk has a bug that I personally consider serious [0], but the > maintainer does not. We can't seem to reach a consensus, > so I am requesting a release team determination. > > The problem is that once openjdk-6-jre and openjdk-

Bug#600664: [Openjdk] Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package (circular dependency on openjdk-6-jre-headless?)

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > severity serious > thanks > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: >> even this scenario is not reproducible for me in a fresh sid chroot. No, the >> question whether this is reproducible for other people or in a fresh ch

Bug#600664: [Openjdk] Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package (circular dependency on openjdk-6-jre-headless?)

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
severity serious thanks On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > even this scenario is not reproducible for me in a fresh sid chroot. No, the > question whether this is reproducible for other people or in a fresh chroot > is not answered. The removal of these packages on the build

Bug#600664: [Openjdk] Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package (circular dependency on openjdk-6-jre-headless?)

2010-10-20 Thread Matthias Klose
severity 600664 important tag 600664 + moreinfo thanks On 21.10.2010 06:39, Michael Gilbert wrote: severity 600664 serious tag -moreinfo it looks like you also need to have openjdk-6-jre installed to be ablo to reproduce this. otherwise, removal works fine. note that in this situation, openjdk

Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package (circular dependency on openjdk-6-jre-headless?)

2010-10-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
severity 600664 serious tag -moreinfo it looks like you also need to have openjdk-6-jre installed to be ablo to reproduce this. otherwise, removal works fine. note that in this situation, openjdk-6-jre is also unremovable. in fact it *installs* packages given a removal command: $ sudo apt-get p

Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package (circular dependency on openjdk-6-jre-headless?)

2010-10-20 Thread Matthias Klose
severity 600664 important tags 600664 + moreinfo help thanks unable to reproduce. is this repeatable by somebody else or in a fresh chroot? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package (circular dependency on openjdk-6-jre-headless?)

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
Package: openjdk-6-jre-lib Version: 6b18-1.8.2-1 Severity: serious openjdk-6-jre-lib is currently not removeable on sid. this may be because openjdk-6-jre-headless depends on openjdk-6-jre-lib (>= ${source:Version} and openjdk-6-jre-lib depends on openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= ${base:Version}). i g