Bug#490680: does not work due to dangling symlink/missing dependency

[Rene Engelhard]

Package: icedtea-gcjwebplugin
Severity: grave

Hi,

after installing icedtea-gcjwebplugin about:plugins in iceweasel didn't
show the Java plugin.

rene at frodo:/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins$ ls -l
insgesamt 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 24. Mai 17:46 gtk-vnc-plugin.so ->
../../gtk-vnc/plugins/gtk-vnc-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 21. Jan 11:00 libjavaplugin.so ->
/etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 13. Jul 15:52 libnpsoplugin.so ->
../../openoffice/program/libnpsoplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57  6. Jul 16:11 npwrapper.libflashplayer.so ->
../../nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 21. Apr 01:27 opensc-signer.so ->
../../opensc-signer.so
rene at frodo:/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins$ 

(libjavaplugin.so in red for danglings symlinks)

OK, let's look at  /etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so:

rene at frodo:/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins$ ls -l
/etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 21. Jan 11:00
/etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so ->
/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/lib/libgcjwebplugin.so

dangling, too. It points to the libgcjwebplugin.so
java-gcj-compat-plugin installs, but does not depend on
java-gcj-compat-plugin.

But I don't think this is intended, given that icedtea-gcjwebplugin
itself contains
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so

FWIW:

rene at frodo:/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins$ sudo update-alternatives --config
iceweasel-javaplugin.so

Es gibt nur 1 Programm, welches iceweasel-javaplugin.so bereitstellt
(/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so). Nichts zu
konfigurieren.
rene at frodo:/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins

Regards,

Rene

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages icedtea-gcjwebplugin depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.22.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.7-12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.6.4-6    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.1-6  GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.12.11-1  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d                   4.7.1-3    NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.20.5-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.1-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  openjdk-6-jre                 6b10dfsg-1 OpenJDK Java runtime

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