Bug#434144: sun-java6-jre: Security upgrade halts applications

[Nagy Elemer Karoly]

Package: sun-java6-jre
Version: 6-22-0lenny1
Followup-For: Bug #434144


When security upgrading from an older version (i.e. 6-20), files and links from the previous version's extlib  
(/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.XX/jre/lib/ext/) should be moved to the new version's extlib
(/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.YY/jre/lib/ext/) directory before being deleted or else working applications 
will die (maybe only after next reboot) because they don't find their JDBC driver, for example. Dpkg warns 
about non-empty directories and does not remove them. Can be a show stopper for a Debian Java server...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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 sun-java6-jre depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.24       Debian configuration management sy
ii  java-common                 0.30         Base of all Java packages
ii  locales                     2.7-18lenny6 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  sun-java6-bin               6-22-0lenny1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

Versions of packages sun-java6-jre recommends:
ii  gsfonts-x11                   0.21       Make Ghostscript fonts available t

Versions of packages sun-java6-jre suggests:
pn  sun-java6-fonts             <none>       (no description available)
ii  sun-java6-plugin            6-22-0lenny1 The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6
pn  ttf-arphic-uming            <none>       (no description available)
pn  ttf-baekmuk | ttf-unfonts | <none>       (no description available)
pn  ttf-kochi-mincho | ttf-saza <none>       (no description available)
ii  ttf-sazanami-gothic         20040629-2   Sazanami Gothic Japanese TrueType 

-- debconf information:
* shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1: true
  sun-java6-jre/stopthread: true
  sun-java6-jre/jcepolicy:
  shared/error-sun-dlj-v1-1:
* shared/present-sun-dlj-v1-1: