Bug#558778: openoffice.org: fails to upgrade from 1:3.0.1-9 to 1:3.1.1-2

[Frederic Mothe <mothe@nancy.inra.fr>]

Hi,

Rene Engelhard a écrit :
> > > > ii  ttf-opensymbol         1:2.4.1-17        The OpenSymbol
> > > > TrueType font
> > > ??? Why is that on that ancient version? Didn't you do proper
> > > dist-upgrades?
> > No, sorry. Since Lenny release, I just uograded the minimum to install
> > openoffice 3 and a few other packages.
>
> Then you should have used backports. And not do stuff like this.
> Especially with keeping ancient stuff around.

But doing so, I could not help you to find exotic upgrade bugs!
(Sorry again, actually I am not so familiar with backport)

> > If this problem only occurs when upgrading from 3.0.1-9 to 3.1.1-2, it
> > should not concern many people. I could simply uninstall 3.0.1-9 and
>
> That is what I need to find out. 

Ok, thanks. I will wait your conclusions before uninstalling and take
the risk to cannot install again.

Frederic