On 10.08.2009 23:55, Graham Cobb wrote:
Package: gcj-4.4-jre-headless
Version: 4.4.1-1
Severity: important
Doing 'aptitude safe-upgrade' on my squeeze system has resulted in
gcj-4.4-jre-headless being unable to be configured. The aptitude error is:
Setting up gcj-4.4-jre-headless (4.4.1-1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative rmiregistry can't be master: it is a
slave of java
dpkg: error processing gcj-4.4-jre-headless (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
This problem then causes several other packages to not be configurable
because they have dependency on gcj-4.4-jre-headless.
These broken packages are causing other problems and I cannot remove them
without uninstalling important packages like openoffice.
the recent dpkg doesn't allow mixed master/slave alternatives anymore. Not sure
how dpkg deals with this when a user has such packages installed, and then
upgrades to the new dpkg.
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.
Matthias
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