Bug#434647: kaffe: Kaffe makes itself the default on upgrade

[Ken Bloom]

Package: kaffe
Version: 2:1.1.7-4
Severity: normal

Whenever kaffe gets upgraded it becomes the default java compiler,
even if I have previously gone to update-alternatives --configure and
set something else as the default.

The culprit is the line from kaffe.prerm
update-alternatives --auto $file || true

Please remove this line. No maintainer scripts should ever run this
line as it (by definition) overrides the system administrator's
preferences about the alternatives link.

(I'm struck by the fact that this is the next level of pushiness and
inconsiderateness over a bug I filed a few years ago against the kaffe
package http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281666.
Please learn how the alternatives system is supposed to work, and how
to respect the system administrator's preferences.)

--Ken

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1ken (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kaffe depends on:
ii  kaffe-pthreads                2:1.1.7-4  A POSIX threads enabled version of

kaffe recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information