Bug#308838: java-package: update-alternatives not working for browser plugin

Mon May 16 21:40:03 2005

tags 308838 confirmed
reassign 308838 dpkg
retitle 308838 update-alternatives reverts to 'manual' mode erroneously when intermittingly no alternative exists
submitter 308838 David Everly <deckrider@gmail.com>, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
thanks

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:23:42AM -0600, David Everly wrote:
> To reproduce:
> 
> install sun-j2sdk1.5 (built from make-jpkg)
> purge sun-j2sdk1.5
> install sun-j2sdk1.4 (built from make-jpkg)

This is a bug in update-alternatives -- indeed, if a set of alternatives
at one point in time is empty, it will revert to 'manual' mode without
there actually being a manual action involved. I could reproduce the
above on a clean installation.

--Jeroen

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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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