Bug#650928: java-common: A very recent (Dec 2011) change somewhere in java hosed various aspects of java

[Emmanuel Charpentier <emm.charpentier@free.fr>]

Thanks for this very prompt answer.

Okay, there seems to be an issue on the origin of this problem...

I can confirm that this is a *very* recent issue (another machine, which
had had an update about 2-3 days ago, does not exhibit this problem ; on
my problematic machines, the problem did not appear on Friday Dec 2(last
time I remember having used Zotero on at least one of these machines).
Would a list of the current possible updates to this machine help you
find the problem ? I tried that (at-get dist-upgrade -u -f -s | less),
but found nothing obvious to my eyes...

I can also confirm that the problem might be peculiar to the particular
"Zotero OpenOffice integration" plugin/tool : on at least one of my
problematic machines, Zotero Standalone is still able to receive
additions from Chrome...

Can either of you suggest a workaround or temporary fix ? I am not a
systems administrator, just a bloody dentist/biostatistician (yes...)
that *uses* a computer in his everyday problem solving and *writing*.
This latter is a very important part of his work...

                               Emmanuel Charpentier

Le dimanche 04 décembre 2011 à 13:42 +0100, Matthias Klose a écrit :
> reassign 650928 java-common
> thanks
> 
> see update-java-alternatives(1). if the plugin is not installed, don't try to
> update the alternatives.
> 
> feel free to rewrite the tool to make it more user friendly.