Bug#360489: upgrading from sarge to etch remove openoffice.org

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

severity 360489 normal
thanks
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 07:06:42PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> tag 360489 + moreinfo
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Bill Allombert wrote:
> > When doin a upgrade of a clean sarge installation, apt-get and aptitude
> > attempt to remove openoffice.org. This is 100% reproducible.
> > 
> > # aptitude --with-recommends dist-upgrade
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   base-config libmyspell3 libstlport4.6 openoffice.org-bin
> >   openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en
> 
> This is completely right.
> 
> More packages to be removed?
> 
> > Apparently the problem is with openoffice.org-l10n-en, 
> > openoffice.org-l10n-en-us and openoffice.org-core.
> 
> I don't see any problem in your report.
> All of the above packages are gone.

Ah thanks I did not notice that this list did not include
openoffice.org.

So aptitude does not trigger the problem but apt-get does:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  
  base-config libstlport4.6 openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin
  openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en

so I downgrade the severity. 
Simplifying the dependencies so that it works with apt-get would 
probably avoid problems with larger packages set.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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