Depends on usplash-theme-debian, but it is not present

comfirm.

avb@ds:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ubuntu-desktop usplash usplash-theme-ubuntu
The following packages will be upgraded:
  binutils binutils-static docbook-xml finger libaudio2 libexif12 libkpathsea4
  libusplash0 libxfont1 python-dbus rhythmbox
11 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6238kB of archives.
After unpacking 3449kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
avb@ds:~$ sudo apt-get install usplash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  usplash: Depends: usplash-theme-debian but it is not installable or
                    usplash-theme but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

Adding usplash-theme-ubuntu, which should presumably provide usplash-theme, thereby solving this problem.

I'd rather say the dependency is completely bogus. usplash does not need
any theme to be installed in order to be functional.

Here's usplash-theme-ubuntu with an updated control file. I'm not sure what I'm meant to do with the version number so it's still 0.14.

I'm fixing usplash now.

usplash-theme-ubuntu should probably be changed, but that's wishlist.

usplash (0.5.0) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Add an update-usplash-theme script to do the necessary
    update-alternatives and update-initramfs in one shot.
  * Merge from Debian:
    - debian/control: Fix section of libusplash-dev.
    - debian/copyright: Add notice about .bdf files.
    - Only run on stop with splash boot argument.
    - debian/usplash.init: Add dependency info (Petter Reinholdtsen);
      adjusted for Ubuntu.
    - debian/usplash.postinst, debian/usplash.postrm: Check if
      update-initramfs is really installed.
  * Arbitrary version bump to override version 0.4-43-3 which accidentally
    got synced into gutsy, and switch to a native versioning scheme while
    we're at it (LP: #113780).
  * usplash.8: Document -v, -x, and -y options (thanks, James Westby;
    LP: #107537).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 11 May 2007 09:50:20 +0200

i feel bug can closed :)