Bug#531116: Installation hangs while adding the extension

[Torbjörn Andersson <eriknospam@telia.com>]

Rene Engelhard wrote:

> And loops when trying to find Java...

I have to admit I'm mostly ignorant when it comes to Java, so I'm not
sure which packages that involves. Though /usr/bin/java on my machine is
actually "gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.3.3" (debian package 4.3.3-8), if
that's what you mean.

> Well, there is #530694 against -wiki-publisher

Really? Dang, I thought I searched all the OpenOffice.org bug reports
for "hang", but somehow I missed that one. My mistake. I see it mentions
hanging when removing the package. I don't think that happened to me
with this package, though that may be because I never managed to fully
install and configure it.

I seem to recall that trying to install it again, over the already
incompletely installed -4 package would cause it to hang while trying to
remove the extension. I thought the hang during installation was a
cleaner test case though, since that happened even if I purged the old
package before installing the new one.

> Hrmf. Why do people always use "old" versions of packages. This causes
> unclear statements like this when a bug appeared first.
> IMHO everyone using sid should update regularily. (And regularily is not
> the time between 3.1.0-1 and -4..)

Well, I usually do update every day (unless there are only a few new
packages, and none of them seem terribly important), but I don't think I
even saw -2 go into unstable (a glitch with the mirror I used?), and -4
appeared while I was still waiting for the i386 packages of -3.

Regards,

Torbjörn