Package: icedtea-netx Version: 1.5.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #759226 Hi,
The cause of the bug seems to be icedtea-netx.postinst.in file. If you look into it carefully, it will try to install all alternatives unconditionally, see below trimmed version for brevity. There also seems to be a typo on the priority checks. Apparently the checks don't match code. [...] | for i in $tools; do | unset slave1 || true | if [ -e $man7dir/man1/$i.$srcext ]; then | slave1="--slave \ | /usr/share/man/man1/$i.$dstext \ | $i.$dstext \ | $man7dir/man1/$i.$srcext" | fi | update-alternatives \ it looks like this should be made conditional (see below) | --install \ | /usr/bin/$i \ | $i \ | $base7dir/jre/bin/$i \ | $priority7 \ | $slave1 | | # 6's priority is higher, but 6 is not installed, set it to 7 | if [ $priority -gt $priority7 ] && [ ! -f $base7dir/jre/bin/$i ]; then it also looks like this is the wrong check. Shouldn't this be: if [ $priority -gt $priority7 ] && [ ! -f $basedir/jre/bin/$i ]; then | update-alternatives --set $i $base7dir/jre/bin/$i | fi | | # 7's priority is higher, but 7 is not installed, set it to 6 | if [ $priority7 -gt $priority ] && [ ! -f $basedir/jre/bin/$i ]; then Shouldn't this be : if [ $priority7 -gt $priority ] && [ ! -f $base7dir/jre/bin/$i ]; then | update-alternatives --set $i $basedir/jre/bin/$i | fi | done | | for i in $tools; do | unset slave1 || true | if [ -e $man8dir/man1/$i.$srcext ]; then | slave1="--slave \ | /usr/share/man/man1/$i.$dstext \ | $i.$dstext \ | $man8dir/man1/$i.$srcext" | fi | update-alternatives \ this should also be conditional on their respective package being installed or not. If you just call this update-alternatives line directly without having openjdk-8 installed, you'll see that it fails the same way. As a workaround on my machine (needed this working for VPN) I just commented out openjdk-8 from this postinst script. A better fix, however, would be to make both loops break early if the respective package isn't installed; I guess... | --install \ | /usr/bin/$i \ | $i \ | $base8dir/jre/bin/$i \ | $priority8 \ | $slave1 | | # 7's priority is higher, but 7 is not installed, set it to 8 | if [ $priority7 -gt $priority8 ] && [ ! -f $base8dir/jre/bin/$i ]; then shouldn't this one be: if [ $priority7 -gt $priority8 ] && [ ! -f $base7dir/jre/bin/$i ]; then | update-alternatives --set $i $base8dir/jre/bin/$i | fi | | # 8's priority is higher, but 8 is not installed, set it to 7 | if [ $priority8 -gt $priority7 ] && [ ! -f $base7dir/jre/bin/$i ]; then And this, shouldn't it be ? if [ $priority8 -gt $priority7 ] && [ ! -f $base8dir/jre/bin/$i ]; then | update-alternatives --set $i $base7dir/jre/bin/$i | fi | done cheers -- balbi -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages icedtea-netx depends on: ii icedtea-netx-common 1.5.1-1 ii openjdk-7-jre 7u65-2.5.2-4 icedtea-netx recommends no packages. icedtea-netx suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org