I stumbled upon this problem when I tried to prepare a backport of OpenJDK 6 and 7 to Debian squeeze. The problem appears to be caused by the file debian/JB-jre.postinst.
It tries to avoid installing its alternatives in case of an upgrade, assuming that those alternatives must have already been installed by the previous version. IMHO this is an illegal assumption, as the previous version could have been deconfigured or broken somehow. So the fix I propose is to set "update_alternatives" to "y" and not try to be clever about it. The other debian/JB-*.postinst files seem to have the same problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to openjdk-6 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905808 Title: java alternatives missing after upgrade to precise Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: after upgrading to precise, the java alternatives symlinks seem to be broken, and not fixed by update-java-alternatives, which complains: mbp@joy% sudo update-java-alternatives -v -s java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64 resetting java alternatives update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for appletviewer. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for apt. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for extcheck. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for idlj. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for jarsigner. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for java. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for javac. .... (or similarly with --auto) the binary files do exist and the .jinfo file seems valid. It is true there is no java alternative in /etc/alternatives. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: openjdk-6-jdk 6b24~pre2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-4.10-generic 3.2.0-rc5 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-4-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Dec 18 08:27:26 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) SourcePackage: openjdk-6 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-15 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/905808/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
