Broken packages with -l10n, -help and language-support

[Matthias Rosenkranz]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Upgrade via the update-manager failed yesterday because of broken packages. The problem seems to be that openoffice.org was updated to 1:2.4.1~ooh680m14-1ubuntu1 in hardy-proposed on amd64. A manual apt-get dist-upgrade then removed the packages
openoffice.org-l10n-en-za
openoffice.org-help-en-gb
openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
language-support-translations-en
language-support-en.
The openoffice-l10 and -help packages are still at version 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu1, which seem to conflicts with the newer openoffice.org, -- and language-support-translations-en depends on them. Today update-manager installed a couple of new language-pack packages but language-support-en and -translations-en are still not installable due to broken packages. Is there a general transition to different language support packages going on and the openoffice help and l10n files will be updated accordingly?

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Confirming, with the addition of openoffice.org-voikko (in main also and part of language-support-fi dependencies). It needs a simple rebuild to update dependencies.

[lanzen (lanzen)]

I suppose it is related to this. After this morning upgrade - there was a message about partial upgrade - OpenOffice is using the EN locale only. Previously it was in italian.
I was told, but didn't try it myself, that trying to install the correct locale gets Oo t uninstalled.

[James Hall (james-hall-01)]

This problem still occurs when openoffice was updated to 1:2.4.1~rc1-1ubuntu1 in Hardy proposed (i386) this morning.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

openoffice.org-voikko now a separate bug 236248. Anyway, all of these rebuilds should be done and placed into hardy-proposed before even considering moving anything to hardy-updates.

[Guglielmo Cola (guglielmocola)]

I can confirm this.
Yesterday I had to remove openoffice.org-l10n, openoffice.org-help, language-support-translations, language-support,
in order to install "proposed" updates.
Now if I want to install language support again it asks me to remove openoffice.

[maxadamo (massimilianoadamo)]

Why importance "field" is still not set?
There is no security concern, but there is a severe usability issue: the update has broken dependencies and needs to be fixed soon.

Desktop users don't use ssh keys, and they are more concerned with these bugs, than bugs like the one with SSL broken keys.

Furthermore, when these things happen, you should rollback repositories as soon as you can.... and then try to fix.

Thanks in advance for fixing this and giving me back all italian language files.

[Tomas Teijeiro (tomas-teijeiro)]

It seems the problem has been fixed. I've updated and installed spanish locales and all works fine, and the version is of course 2.4.1. Thanks

[Dario Panico (dariopnc-)]

Everything seems to work fine, I think that it could be marked as fixed.

[Guglielmo Cola (guglielmocola)]

I confirm. Problem solved!

[maxadamo (massimilianoadamo)]

ok, fixed.
My Italian file are back :)

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Yep, solved except for the similar bug 236248 which still keeps language-support-fi broken.

[Paul Whipp (paul-whipp)]

I just got this too. I view the updates or installing packages with trepidation because it seems that at least half the time you get a slew of errors and broken packages.