Update broke openjdk-6-jre .

[mhwc]

The update manager told me there were several packages to update, and I as usually said 'OK'. Then, it told me that some packages could not be installed. I ran dpkg in a terminal window, and this is what it looks like:

> sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/bin/java is already managed by java~.
dpkg: error processing openjdk-6-jre-headless (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openjdk-6-jre:
openjdk-6-jre depends on openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3); however:
Package openjdk-6-jre-headless is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openjdk-6-jre (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of icedtea-6-jre-cacao:
icedtea-6-jre-cacao depends on openjdk-6-jre-headless (= 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3); however:
Package openjdk-6-jre-headless is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing icedtea-6-jre-cacao (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of icedtea6-plugin:
icedtea6-plugin depends on openjdk-6-jre (= 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3); however:
Package openjdk-6-jre is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing icedtea6-plugin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
openjdk-6-jre-headless
openjdk-6-jre
icedtea-6-jre-cacao
icedtea6-plugin

What is broken, and how can it be fixed?

[igoddard]

This now seems to be affecting Hardy. There are allegedly 4 packages to update but require ca-certificates-java which is missing. Debian repository has this package but trying to install it requires ca-certificates. ca-certificates is installed but is older than Debian's version.

Does nobody test this stuff before they release it?