[Bug 57334] gnome package uninstallable on edgy

[Mikael Nilsson]

Public bug reported:

I happened to uninstall the "gnome" package a while ago, due to some
complicated package conflicts.

Now when I try to reinstall it, I get:

The following packages are BROKEN:
  gamin gnome-desktop-environment gnome-themes-extras python-imaging python2.3-imaging-tk 
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  dasher dasher-data dia-common dia-gnome dia-libs fam gda2-postgres gdm-themes gnome-backgrounds gnome-office gnumeric gnumeric-common gtk-engines-industrial 
  gtk2-engines-spherecrystal inkscape libgoffice-0-3 libgoffice-0-common libgsf-gnome-1-114 libmagick++9c2a libplot2c2 libpstoedit0c2a libwmf-bin perlmagick planner portmap 
  pstoedit python2.3-imaging skencil 
The following packages have been kept back:
  python-htmlgen python-soappy valknut 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dasher dasher-data dia-common dia-gnome dia-libs fam gda2-postgres gdm-themes gnome gnome-backgrounds gnome-office gnumeric gnumeric-common gtk-engines-industrial 
  gtk2-engines-spherecrystal inkscape libgoffice-0-3 libgoffice-0-common libgsf-gnome-1-114 libmagick++9c2a libplot2c2 libpstoedit0c2a libwmf-bin perlmagick planner portmap 
  pstoedit python2.3-imaging skencil 
0 packages upgraded, 32 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 35,4MB of archives. After unpacking 150MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: industrial-cursor-theme which is a virtual package.
  gamin: Conflicts: fam but 2.7.0-10ubuntu1 is to be installed.
  python2.3-imaging-tk: Depends: python2.3-tk which is a virtual package.
  gnome-themes-extras: Depends: gtk2-engines-smooth which is a virtual package.
                       Depends: gtk2-engines-industrial which is a virtual package.
  python-imaging: Conflicts: python2.3-imaging but 1.1.5-4ubuntu2 is to be installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
fam [Not Installed]
gnome [Not Installed]
gnome-desktop-environment [Not Installed]
gnome-office [Not Installed]
gnome-themes-extras [Not Installed]
inkscape [Not Installed]
python2.3-imaging [Not Installed]
python2.3-imaging-tk [Not Installed]
skencil [Not Installed]

Score is 71

** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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gnome package uninstallable on edgy
https://launchpad.net/bugs/57334