Package: icedtea-netx Version: 1.7.2-1 Severity: grave Dear Maintainer,
The files in /usr/share/icedtea-web/bin have the wrong file names in the new package and this breaks javaws. itweb-settings and policyeditor are also broken. In the old 1.7.1-1 package: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 15 23:53 /etc/alternatives/javaws -> /usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/javaws* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Mar 15 23:53 /usr/bin/javaws -> /etc/alternatives/javaws* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5432 Oct 24 08:42 /usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/javaws* In the new 1.7.2-1 package: ls: cannot access '/usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/javaws': No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 15 23:53 /etc/alternatives/javaws -> /usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/javaws lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Mar 15 23:53 /usr/bin/javaws -> /etc/alternatives/javaws This is because the file is (presumably incorrectly) named with a .sh suffix in the new package: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6287 Mar 15 18:44 /usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/javaws.sh* If you do a fresh install instead of an upgrade you don't get any symlinks at all: ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/javaws': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '/etc/alternatives/javaws': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '/usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/javaws': No such file or directory -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages icedtea-netx depends on: ii default-jre 2:1.11-71 ii librhino-java 1.7.7.1-1 ii libtagsoup-java 1.2.1+-1 icedtea-netx recommends no packages. icedtea-netx suggests no packages. -- no debconf information