Bug#540939: upgrade has broken several packages: gcj-4.4-jre-headless cannot be configured

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Graham Cobb wrote:
> On Friday 11 September 2009 14:24:49 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > the only "fix" I can think of would be adding conflicts to every
> > > package listing rmiregistry et al as a slave alternative. But I
> > > don't know these packages, so it's likely that we close this report
> > > as a won't fix.
> >
> > You can ask the bug submitter at the very least to find out.
> 
> I'm not sure what I am supposed to be finding out.  If someone can explain to 
> me I am happy to give it a go!  By the way, I understand packaging and can 
> use dpkg and apt.  But I am not familiar with how the alternatives system 
> works.

What is the package that provides the java alternative with the
rmiregistry slave ?

Make your /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/java file available in the log
as well as the package name and package version that provides
/usr/bin/java

Then this bug should be cloned to that package (or those if needed)
once those cloned bugs are fixed, gcj-4.4-jre-headless and other can
conflicts with the broken versions of those packages.

> I would certainly not be happy to see it closed as WONTFIX -- won't this break 
> the upgrade process to squeeze for many people?  And what is the workround?  
> My system is currently broken, how do I fix it?

Remove the package(s) providing the java alternative that contains the
rmiregistry slave.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog