Bug#261250: openoffice.org: OOo 1.1.2-2 starts endlessly looping install script

[Bruce Miller <bruce@brmiller.ca>]

Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.2-2
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii  dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.22.30    Common utilities for spelling dict
ii  openoffice.org-bin            1.1.2-2    OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii  openoffice.org-debian-files   1.1.2-2+1  Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.2-2    English (US) language package for 
ii  ttf-opensymbol                1.1.2-2    The OpenSymbol TrueType font

-- no debconf information

system had been running a session of KDE 3.2.3 for about two weeks, during which time OOo was routinely upgraded;
first time that I exited KDE and later restarted, an endless loop called repeated instances of an install script, which in turn requested user's tombstone data and then proposed to install OOo into ~/.openoffice/;
fwiw, yesterday I coincidentally compiled KDE3.3-beta2 from sources on this box, but that version of KDE requires a modification of $PATH before loading;
there is only one version of oooqs installed: the Debian version

ii  oooqs-kde                               2.0.3-4.0.1                             OpenOffice.org QuickStarter applet for KDE