Bug#825987: /usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives: Re: /usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives: doesn't detect openjdk-8 xjc

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 03:07:50PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 update-java-alternatives: doesn't recognise new jdkhl label in jinfo files
> Control: tags -1 + patch confirmed
> Control: severity -1 normal
> 
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 11:42:27AM +1000, Jayen Ashar wrote:
> > Package: java-common
> > Version: 0.57
> > Followup-For: Bug #825987
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > javac seems to have the same issue:
> > 
> > $ sudo update-java-alternatives -v -l | grep javac
> > listing java alternatives:
> > jdk javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386/bin/javac
> > jdk javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/bin/javac
> > jdk javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javac
> > jdk javac /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-i586/bin/javac
> 
> This is because, as of openjdk-8 8u72-b15-3[1] a new 'jdkhl' label
> was added to the jinfo files, but update-java-alternatives was not
> updated to take account of this.
> 
> This affects the following commands:
> 
> extcheck, idlj, jar, jarsigner, javac, javadoc, javah, javap, jcmd, jdb,
> jdeps, jhat, jinfo, jmap, jps, jrunscript, jsadebugd, jstack, jstat,
> jstatd, native2ascii, rmic, schemagen, serialver, wsgen, wsimport, xjc
> 
> I've attached a patch which restores the expected behaviour.

Ping? Is there any chance of getting this included into stretch?
It would be nice to to have to manually patch this ourselves through
its life.

Best,
Dominic.