Circular dependency between sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-bin
Bug #291128 reported by
Thierry Carrez
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sun-java6 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
sun-java6-jre depends on sun-java6-bin, while sun-java6-bin depends on sun-java6-jre.
This circular dependency can result in packages depending on sun-java6-jre to fail to configure properly. One example of this is bug 274365, where Tomcat 5.5 or Tomcat 6 fail to start during postinst if the dependency loop was arbitrarily broken at the wrong point.
This should probably be fixed by removing the "Depends: sun-java6-jre" from sun-java6-bin as nothing should rely on depending on -bin to install -jre.
Revision history for this message
| Matthias Klose (doko) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in sun-java6: | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
Revision history for this message
| Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote | #2 |
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the license requires to install all or nothing, not just parts of it.