Bug#342557: gcj-4.0: Upgrading gcj makes javah disappear

[Gábor Gombás <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

Package: gcj-4.0
Version: 4.0.2-5j1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software


Hi,

I noticed several times that after upgrades /usr/bin/javah disappears.
I usually notice this when compilation of JNI code breaks. Now I
found out the problem being caused by the upgrade of gcj-4.0.

Before upgrade:

	# ls -l /usr/bin/javah
	lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2005-12-04 18:20 /usr/bin/javah -> /etc/alternatives/javah

	# update-alternatives --display javah
	javah - status is manual.
	 link currently points to /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/javah
	/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/javah - priority 315
	 slave javah.1.gz: /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/man/man1/javah.1.gz
	/usr/bin/javah-j2sdk1.4-ibm - priority 314
	/etc/alternatives/kaffe-system/bin/javah - priority 300
	 slave javah.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/javah.kaffe.1.gz
	/usr/bin/javah-cp - priority 350
	 slave javah.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/javah-cp.1.gz
	Current `best' version is /usr/bin/javah-cp.

Upgrading:

	# apt-get install libgcj6-dev
	Reading package lists... Done
	Building dependency tree... Done
	Reading package lists... Done
	Building dependency tree... Done
	The following extra packages will be installed:
	  gcj-4.0 gij-4.0
	The following packages will be upgraded:
	  gcj-4.0 gij-4.0 libgcj6-dev
	3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 89 not upgraded.
	Need to get 0B/10.9MB of archives.
	After unpacking 8192B disk space will be freed.
	Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
	Reading changelogs... Done
	Reading changelogs... Done
	Reading changelogs... Done
	(Reading database ... 210196 files and directories currently installed.)
	Preparing to replace libgcj6-dev 4.0.2-4 (using .../libgcj6-dev_4.0.2-5j1_amd64.deb) ...
	Unpacking replacement libgcj6-dev ...
	Preparing to replace gij-4.0 4.0.2-4 (using .../gij-4.0_4.0.2-5j1_amd64.deb) ...
	Unpacking replacement gij-4.0 ...
	Preparing to replace gcj-4.0 4.0.2-4 (using .../gcj-4.0_4.0.2-5j1_amd64.deb) ...
	Unpacking replacement gcj-4.0 ...
	Setting up gij-4.0 (4.0.2-5j1) ...

	Setting up libgcj6-dev (4.0.2-5j1) ...
	Setting up gcj-4.0 (4.0.2-5j1) ...

After upgrade:

	# ls -l /usr/bin/javah
	ls: /usr/bin/javah: No such file or directory

	# update-alternatives --display javah
	javah - status is manual.
	 link currently absent
	/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/javah - priority 315
	 slave javah.1.gz: /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/man/man1/javah.1.gz
	/usr/bin/javah-j2sdk1.4-ibm - priority 314
	/etc/alternatives/kaffe-system/bin/javah - priority 300
	 slave javah.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/javah.kaffe.1.gz
	/usr/bin/javah-cp - priority 350
	 slave javah.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/javah-cp.1.gz
	Current `best' version is /usr/bin/javah-cp.

Gabor

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.3
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gcj-4.0 depends on:
ii  gcc-4.0                   4.0.2-4        The GNU C compiler
ii  gij-4.0                   4.0.2-5j1      The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  ibm-j2sdk1.4 [java-common 1.4.2          Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition, 
ii  java-common               0.23           Base of all Java packages
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-8.1      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.0.2-4      GCC support library
ii  libgcj6-common            4.0.2-5j1      Java runtime library for use with 
ii  libgcj6-dev               4.0.2-5j1      Java development headers and stati
ii  sun-j2sdk1.5 [java-common 1.5.0+update03 Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition, 
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-8      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gcj-4.0 recommends:
ii  fastjar                       1:4.0.2-5  Jar creation utility

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