[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#726801: biomaj: fails to install with Recommends enabled

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:16:31 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> >> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. As
> >> per definition of the release team this makes the package too buggy for
> >> a release, thus the severity.
> actually I observed the problem while testing biomaj-watcher_1.2.1-1 in
> contrib, but the failure was already while installing its dependencies.

I know, that's why I tried both :)
 
> > IOW: I can't reproduce the installation failure (amd64 sid chroot,
> > DEBCONF_FRONTEND=noninteractive), neither with biomaj-watcher nor
> > with biomaj, neither with --with-recommends nor with
> > --without-recommends.
> 
> and in that logfile (that is already attached to the bugreport)
> I have
> 
>   Setting up ca-certificates-java (20130815) ...
>   done.
>   Setting up openjdk-7-jre-headless:i386 (7u25-2.3.12-4) ...
>   update-alternatives: using
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java
> (java) in auto mode
> 
> 
> ***after*** the biomaj failure - so there was no java, yet.
> Looks like dependencies are missing somewhere.

Which is weird since biomaj Depends: default-jre | java6-runtime.

But yes, something might be wrong somewhere, even if I couldn't
reproduce it manually :)
(I have vague memories about openjdk-something 6 vs. 7 and
update-alternatives.)

Oh, and I don't find the lines you quoted above in the log in
#726801.

> PS: the logfile contains the full piuparts command line I used, look at
> the top.

Yup; I'll try to have another look in the next days.

Cheers,
gregor 

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