Bug#696227: /usr/bin/make-jpkg: Java build number in the directory name.

[Vincent Smeets]

Package: java-package
Version: 0.51~exp1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/make-jpkg

Hallo,

I have manually installed this version of java-package (from
experimental) in my Debian stable environment. to be able to install the
oracle java JDK in a debian way on my machine.

The packages generated by make-jpkg are oracle-java6-jdk (version: 6.38)
and oracle-java7-jdk (version: 7.10). The package names contain only the
major java version numbers, not the build numbers.

Installing those packages results however in the directories
/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-6.38-oracle-x64 and /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7.10-oracle-x64.
The problem is that every time a new version of the JDK is installed, it
will be installed in a new directory. This means that after every
update, I will have to review and update all the references to the JDK
directory. I case there are a lot of references or a lot of users
defining the directory name in there own profile, an update will result
into a broken system.

My sugestion is to remove the build number from the directory name e.g.:
/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-6-oracle-x64 and /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-x64.
An other option (which I don't like) would be to provide a symbolic link
named /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-6-oracle-x64 to the full directory name.


Regards,
Vincent Smeets

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages java-package depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.36.1   Debian configuration management sy
ii  debhelper                     8.0.0      helper programs for debian/rules
ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
ii  libasound2                    1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-4  X11 client-side library
ii  unzip                         6.0-4      De-archiver for .zip files

Versions of packages java-package recommends:
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.8.13  Debian package development tools
ii  gcc                           4:4.4.5-1  The GNU C compiler

Versions of packages java-package suggests:
ii  openjdk-6-jre     6b18-1.8.13-0+squeeze2 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo
pn  openjdk-7-jre     <none>                 (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* java-package/postinst-note: