OpenOffice.org dependencies

[David Ayers <ayers@fsfe.org>]

Hello,

I'm trying to install OOo(2) on a Sarge from backports.  I'm not certain
whether I have all the prerequisites I need wrt the java runtime
environment, but I believe I'm currently failing even before I get to
that point.  Please bear with me as I'm still kind of new to this.

My /etc/apt/sources.list contains:
...
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main
deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main

I've set my /etc/apt/preferences to:
Package: *
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 50
...

I'm trying to install via:
aptitude -t sarge-backports install openoffice.org

and I get:
...
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-base (> 2.0.1) but it is not
installable

And if I do:
aptitude -t sarge-backports show openoffice.org-base

I get:
Package: openoffice.org-base
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 2.0.1-4bpo1
Priority: optional
Section: editors
...

So I wonder whether 2.0.1-4bpo1 is actually supposed to be evaluated as
(> 2.0.1).  Maybe the dependency should read (>= 2.0.1) or a newer
package is in the works?

Cheers,
David

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