openjdk-7-* won't install: packaging internal dependencies incoherence

[André Pirard]

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openjdk/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre-lib
...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openjdk-7-jre: Conflicts: openjdk-7-jre-headless (< 7b89~pre1-0) but 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1 is to be installed
                 Conflicts: openjdk-7-jre-lib (< 7b89~pre1-0) but 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1 is to be installed
  openjdk-7-jre-headless: Conflicts: openjdk-7-jre (< 7b89~pre1-0) but 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1 is to be installed
                          Conflicts: openjdk-7-jre-lib (< 7b89~pre1-0) but 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1 is to be installed
  openjdk-7-jre-lib: Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7b89~pre1) but 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1 is to be installed
                     Conflicts: openjdk-7-jre (< 7b89~pre1-0) but 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1 is to be installed
                     Conflicts: openjdk-7-jre-headless (< 7b89~pre1-0) but 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Depends: openjdk-7-jre-lib (>= 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1), ca-certificates-java, tzdata-java, java-common (>= 0.28), libcups2, liblcms1, libjpeg62, libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.3), libc6 (>= 2.11), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: libnss-mdns, sun-java6-fonts, ttf-dejavu-extra, ttf-baekmuk | ttf-unfonts | ttf-unfonts-core, ttf-sazanami-gothic | ttf-kochi-gothic, ttf-sazanami-mincho | ttf-kochi-mincho, ttf-wqy-microhei | ttf-wqy-zenhei, ttf-indic-fonts-core, ttf-telugu-fonts, ttf-oriya-fonts, ttf-kannada-fonts, ttf-bengali-fonts
Conflicts: openjdk-7-dbg (<< 7b89~pre1-0), openjdk-7-demo (<< 7b89~pre1-0), openjdk-7-doc (<< 7b89~pre1-0), openjdk-7-jdk (<< 7b89~pre1-0), openjdk-7-jre (<< 7b89~pre1-0), openjdk-7-jre-lib (<< 7b89~pre1-0), openjdk-7-jre-zero (<< 7b89~pre1-0), openjdk-7-source (<< 7b89~pre1-0)
Replaces: openjdk-7-jre (<< 6b09dfsg-0ubuntu2), openjdk-7-jre-lib (<< 6b06-0ubuntu11)
Provides: java-runtime-headless, java2-runtime-headless, java5-runtime-headless, java6-runtime-headless

I hacked every DEB to rename the version 7~b117... -> 7b117...
and the problem was gone.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.