I have a build that fixes this at http://lingcog.iit.edu/~bloom/kaffe/ if someone wants to check it and sponsor my upload.
The attached patch adds one more location of update-alternatives --auto in addition to the others already patched, and it gets the direction of the patch right --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
diff -u kaffe-1.1.8/debian/kaffe.prerm kaffe-1.1.8/debian/kaffe.prerm
--- kaffe-1.1.8/debian/kaffe.prerm
+++ kaffe-1.1.8/debian/kaffe.prerm
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
if [ "$1" != "upgrade" ] ; then
for file in appletviewer jar java javac javadoc javah javakey javap jdb native2ascii rmic rmiregistry serialver ; do
update-alternatives --remove $file /etc/alternatives/kaffe-system/bin/$file || true
- update-alternatives --auto $file || true
done
fi
diff -u kaffe-1.1.8/debian/kaffe.preinst kaffe-1.1.8/debian/kaffe.preinst
--- kaffe-1.1.8/debian/kaffe.preinst
+++ kaffe-1.1.8/debian/kaffe.preinst
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ] ; then
for file in appletviewer jar java javac javadoc javah javakey javap jdb native2ascii rmic rmiregistry serialver ; do
update-alternatives --remove $file /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/$file || true
- update-alternatives --auto $file || true
done
fi
diff -u kaffe-1.1.8/debian/changelog kaffe-1.1.8/debian/changelog
--- kaffe-1.1.8/debian/changelog
+++ kaffe-1.1.8/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+kaffe (2:1.1.8-5.2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Do not call 'update-alternatives --auto' in maintainer scripts because it
+ overrides admin decisions (Closes: #434647)
+
+ -- Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:43:39 -0500
+
kaffe (2:1.1.8-5.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
diff -u kaffe-1.1.8/debian/jikes-kaffe.prerm kaffe-1.1.8/debian/jikes-kaffe.prerm
--- kaffe-1.1.8/debian/jikes-kaffe.prerm
+++ kaffe-1.1.8/debian/jikes-kaffe.prerm
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
case "$1" in
upgrade | remove)
update-alternatives --remove javac /usr/bin/jikes-kaffe || true
- update-alternatives --auto javac || true
;;
esac
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