Bug#708540: libreoffice: wants to remove libreoffice-gtk during upgrade to 1:4.0.3-2

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

tag 708540 + moreinfo
tag 708540 + unreproducible
thanks

[ sigh. I "like" how the BTS and/or lists.d.o eats mail and thus the BTS
messages at some times don't reach the maintainer ]

Hi,

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 04:22:23PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> When I upgraded libreoffice from 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-1 to 1:4.0.3-2,
> libreoffice-gtk got removed instead of being upgraded. I couldn't
> see any reason in the changelog. I could reinstall it, but I don't
> see why it was removed in the first place (as it is still needed

I don't either. I believe temporary sid breakage here.
Which would have been nice to check... It's not always a bug in the package
uninstallable/to be removed.

I tried a wheezy -> jessie (4.0.3-3) upgrade (that +dfsg2 was only in sid when
it got replaced by 4.0.3-1 and never in jessie, though[1], so the upgrade was
from 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4. shouldn't matter, though) and a upgrade worked fine and
did NOT remove -gtk:

root@frodo:/# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libexttextcat0 libgraphite2-2.0.0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-core fonts-dejavu-extra gcc-4.8-base
  libboost-date-time1.49.0 libboost-date-time1.53.0 libcdr-0.0-0 libcloog-ppl1
  libcmis-0.3-3 libexttextcat-2.0-0 libffi6 libgcc-4.7-dev libgmpxx4ldbl
  libgraphite2-3 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libgstreamer1.0-0
  libhsqldb1.8.0-java liblangtag-common liblangtag1 liblcms2-2 libmpc3
  libmspub-0.0-0 liborcus-0.4-0 libppl-c4 libppl12 libpython2.7-minimal
  libpython2.7-stdlib libpython3.3 libpython3.3-minimal libpython3.3-stdlib
  libxt6 libzip2 python3.3 python3.3-minimal python3.3-uno
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt base-files bash bsdutils build-essential cpp-4.7 dbus dbus-x11 debconf
  debconf-i18n debianutils diffutils findutils fonts-opensymbol g++-4.7
  gcc-4.7 gcc-4.7-base grep hostname iso-codes libapt-pkg4.12 libatk1.0-0
  libatk1.0-data libblkid1 libboost-iostreams1.49.0 libc-bin libc-dev-bin
  libc6 libc6-dev libcairo2 libclass-isa-perl libcurl3-gnutls libdatrie1
  libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libexttextcat-data libgcc1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libglib2.0-0 libgomp1 libhsqldb-java libhyphen0
  libitm1 libjasper1 libkeyutils1 libltdl7 libmount1 libmpfr4 libncurses5
  libncursesw5 libnspr4 libogg0 liborc-0.4-0 libpam-modules libpam-modules-bin
  libpam-runtime libpam0g libpcre3 libpcsclite1 libpng12-0 libquadmath0
  libraptor2-0 librasqal3 librdf0 libreoffice libreoffice-base
  libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core
  libreoffice-draw libreoffice-filter-mobiledev libreoffice-gnome
  libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-impress libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-math
  libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-style-galaxy libreoffice-writer
  librtmp0 libsqlite3-0 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.7-dev libthai-data libthai0
  libtinfo5 libusb-0.1-4 libuuid1 libvisio-0.0-0 libwpd-0.9-9 libwps-0.2-2
  libxapian22 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb1 libxcursor1 libxext6
  libxfixes3 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxtst6 lsb-base
  mime-support mount multiarch-support ncurses-base ncurses-bin psmisc python
  python-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal sed tar ttf-dejavu
  ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra uno-libs3 ure util-linux vim vim-common
  vim-runtime x11-common zlib1g
129 upgraded, 35 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 74.0 MB/154 MB of archives.
After this operation, 10.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

(neither in the subsequent actual dist-upgrade; was still there after
the dist-upgrade)

Can we close this?

Regards,

Rene

[1] though it's back via pu