[Bug 639933] Re: 10.04 -> 10.10beta: could not install the upgrades - Couldn't configure pre-depend x11-common for x11-xkb-utils, probably a dependency cycle.

[Adam Porter]

This should be a critical bug.  Debian would call it an RC bug and not
release until it's fixed, but Kubuntu has ignored it for 9 months and is
about to release?  :(

I know Kubuntu is understaffed compared to Ubuntu (a shame that the paid
employees are all paid to work on Ubuntu)--all I ask is that the final
version NOT BE RELEASED until it's fixed.  Kubuntu has been pushing out
gold releases that are broken out-of-the-box (including broken-after-
upgrade) for some time now, and it needs to stop!  If that means missing
a release date, so be it!  It's unacceptable to publish an official
upgrade that is known to break systems!  How anyone could say, "Go ahead
and release it, even though it will break systems," is unfathomable to
me.

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Title:
  10.04 -> 10.10beta: could not install the upgrades - Couldn't
  configure pre-depend x11-common for x11-xkb-utils, probably a
  dependency cycle.

Status in “kubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “x11-xkb-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  When doing a distribution upgrade (kdesudo "do-release-upgrade -m
  desktop -f kde -d"), the installer aborts with the message "E:Couldn't
  configure pre-dependend x11-common for x11-xkb-utils, probably a
  dependency cycle."

  The installer just finished "Getting new packages" and was about to
  start "Installing the upgrades".

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