Upgrading openjdk overrides existing alternatives javac setting
Bug #426920 reported by
Kevin Smith
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| openjdk-6 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
When update-manager upgrades some package (I think is it openjdk), my existing /etc/alternatives javac setting gets replaced with the default. This means suddenly my system is running java apps using openjdk instead of sun's java. It should respect and preserve the alternatives setting, or at the very minimum, should warn me that it is changing this important setting. This has hit me several times over the last year or two.
Apologies if this is not actually an update-manager problem. I reported it here since this is the app that is running when the problem happens.
Running Ubuntu 9.04, update-manager 1:0.111.9
| affects: | update-manager (Ubuntu) → openjdk-6 (Ubuntu) |
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| Matthias Klose (doko) wrote | #1 |
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the alternatives are only set at configure time. if they are set to automatic mode, then manually configured alternatives should not be changed.