Bug#572045: rhino won't upgrade, because of update-alternatives

Rafael Funke rfunke at upb.de
Mon Mar 1 08:35:40 UTC 2010


Package: rhino
Version: 1.7R2-4
Severity: normal


Hi,

I cannot upgrade rhino to newest testing version, because something with update-alternatives is messed up:

pinky:~# LANG=C aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  rhino
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up rhino (1.7R2-4) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative js.1.gz can't be slave of js: it is a slave of orbd
dpkg: error processing rhino (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 rhino
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up rhino (1.7R2-4) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative js.1.gz can't be slave of js: it is a slave of orbd
dpkg: error processing rhino (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 rhino
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rf (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rhino depends on:
ii  libjline-java                 0.9.94-5   Java library for handling console 
ii  openjdk-6-jre-headless [java5 6b17-1.7-1 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo
ii  sun-java6-jre [java5-runtime- 6-16-1     Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

rhino recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rhino suggests:
pn  rhino-doc                     <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information





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