Bug#612124: Acknowledgement (libxerces2-java: Depends-line broken due to "hidden" special character)

[Niels Thykier]

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On 2011-02-06 06:19, Martin Millnert wrote:
> An update.
> 
> My first assumption seems to be wrong, but something else seems to be
> seriously wrong:
> 
> root at sslvpn-test:/usr/src# aptitude why libxerces2-java gcj-4.4-base
> p   libxerces2-java      Depends  default-jre-headless | java1-runtime-headless | java2-runtime-headless
> p   gcj-4.4-jre-headless Provides java2-runtime-headless                                                
> p   gcj-4.4-jre-headless Depends  gcj-4.4-base (= 4.4.5-2)                                              
> root at sslvpn-test:/usr/src# aptitude why libxerces2-java sun-java6-jre
> p   libxerces2-java Depends  default-jre-headless | java1-runtime-headless | java2-runtime-headless
> i   sun-java6-jre   Provides java2-runtime-headless                                                
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/java2-runtime-headless
> 
> Either of the packages on the above URL should satisfy the dependency,
> yet neither aptitute nor apt-get manages to understand that the virtual
> package is provided for already.
> 
> I'm at a loss as to why this does not install w/o gcj.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 


Hi

Your problem is most likely that recommends are being installed by
default and libxerces2-java recommends  libxerces2-java-gcj. (It could
also come from a dependency of libxerces2-java(-gcj))
  Installing recommends by default was enabled in Lenny (as I recall).

~Niels


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