Re: tzdata=2015a-0wheezy1 breaks other packages

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 01/02/15 11:04 PM, zonjai wrote:
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> The package tzdata candidate 2015a-0wheezy1 has recently been released
> to the repositories.  If I update this package then I am asked to remove
> OpenJDK-7-jre and OpenJDK-6-jre.  This is due to the package tzdata-java
> depending on tzdata=2014j-0wheezy1.
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> Note the web page: https://packages.debian.org/en/wheezy/tzdata still
> references tzdata=2014j-0wheezy1 as current.
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> Does this bug go against tzdata-java for not updating to depend on the
> newer tzdata=2015a-0wheezy1, or is this a bug against tzdata for pushing
> a package that breaks a number of other packages before they are updated?
>
> I am unsure what other packages are attached to the
> tzdata=2014j-0wheezy1 package.
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> openjdk-7-jre depends on openjdk-7-jre-headless.
> openjdk-7-jre-headless depends on tzdata-java
> tzdata-java depends on tzdata=2015a-0wheezy1
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Jason

I can confirm that the bug is genuine. I've seen it on my server as 
well. As you noticed, the problem appears to be that tzdata-java has a 
very specific tzdata dependency (shouldn't your listing say 
tzdata=2014a-0wheezy1?).