Bug report is slightly mistaken. Ocropus does not depend on tesseract-eng. Tesseract-eng broke the older tesseract-ocr, and then tesseract-ocr broke ocropus.
Fundamentally, new language data doesn't work with older binaries. I'll try this in the language packs: Breaks: tesseract-ocr (<< ${binary:Version}) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org