Package: icedtea-netx Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
This warning happens when I purg icedtea-netx package. Please refer to the following log. root@debian:~# apt-get purge icedtea-7-plugin icedtea-netx icedtea-netx-common icedtea-plugin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: icedtea-7-plugin* icedtea-netx* icedtea-netx-common* icedtea-plugin* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 2,260 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 137810 files and directories currently installed.) Removing icedtea-plugin (1.5.3-1) ... Removing icedtea-7-plugin:amd64 (1.5.3-1) ... Removing icedtea-netx:amd64 (1.5.3-1) ... update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/itweb-settings because link group itweb-settings is broken update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/share/man/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz with a link Removing icedtea-netx-common (1.5.3-1) ... Purging configuration files for icedtea-netx-common (1.5.3-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... root@debian:~# aptitude search icedtea p icedtea-7-jre-jamvm - Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using JamVM pi icedtea-7-plugin - web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and Ic pi icedtea-netx - NetX - implementation of the Java Network pi icedtea-netx-common - NetX - implementation of the Java Network pi icedtea-plugin After purging the packages, the status becomes pi. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)