[Bug 562948] Re: Upgrade 8.04 LTS -> 10.04 LTS fails at circular dependency with openoffice.org extensions

[Ken VanDine]

Closed, lucid is no longer supported

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Upgrade 8.04 LTS -> 10.04 LTS fails at circular dependency with
  openoffice.org extensions

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Update: extended the bug report to cover various newer duplicates of
  other OOo extensions. the core problem is the same for all of these,
  openoffice.org-voikko is just the most notable since it's in main and
  installed by default for all Finnish installations.

  Anyone with any of the following openoffice.org extensions cannot currently upgrade Ubuntu with update-manager from at least 8.04 LTS:
  openoffice.org-filter-binfilter
  openoffice.org-report-builder
  openoffice.org-voikko
  openoffice.org-writer2latex

  Ubuntu 8.04 LTS -> 10.04 LTS upgrades started to be offered via Update Manager when 10.04.1 was released, so more duplicates are now coming in.
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  I upgraded successfully a virtual machine from 9.10 to 10.04 with update-manager, but 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS (update-manager -d) is erroring out, although without breaking the system. The following error is gotten after retrieving new packages and moving to Installing packages phase:

  Virhe suoritettaessa ("Error running")
  'E:Couldn't configure pre-depend openoffice.org-common for openoffice.org-voikko, probably a dependency cycle'
  Palautetaan alkuperäistä järjestelmän tilaa ("Restoring original system state")

  openoffice.org-voikko indeed pre-depends on openoffice.org-common
  since Ubuntu 9.04 where it was added at a last minute to prevent
  upgrade problems. The hardy version openoffice.org-voikko on the other
  hand conflicts with openoffice.org-core >=1:2.4.1.1, which is possibly
  where the calculation attempts stop.

  WORKAROUND:
  The correct order would be to remove the old openoffice.org-voikko while old OOo is still installed, so that unregistering is done using the existing OOo,, then upgrade to new OOo and, and install the new openoffice.org-voikko with the new unopkg offered by openoffice.org-common.

  (note there is another report bug #556321 on 9.10 -> 10.04 upgrade
  problems, but I can't replicate those as described there)

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