Bug#520240: Some KDE packages depend on an old kdebase-data

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

Subject: Some KDE packages depend on an old kdebase-data
Package: kdebase-data
Version: 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

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Some KDE packages like kcontrol, kdm or kicker (maybe more) depend on an old version of kdebase-data on the PowerPC architecture. It looks like other arches are affected, too. x86(64) doesn't seem to be affected.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kcontrol: Depends: kdebase-data (< 4:3.5.9.dfsg.2) but 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1 is installed
    kdm: Depends: kdebase-data (< 4:3.5.9.dfsg.2) but 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1 is installed
      kicker: Depends: kdebase-data (< 4:3.5.9.dfsg.2) but 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1 is installed
      E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

This causes an apt-get dist-upgrade to render KDE unusable (won't start KDM anymore). A temporary workaround it to install kcontrol, kdm, kicker, konqueror and its dependencies manually with dpkg forced install.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.7 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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