Installing openjdk-7-jdk also installs openjdk-6

Bug #859156 reported by James Shaw
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
openjdk-7 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

In Ocelot beta 2, it seems that one of the transitive dependencies of openjdk-7-jdk is causing openjdk-6 to be installed, too. Also, Java 6 is set as the default, not Java 7.

jshaw@leaf:~$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java default-jre default-jre-headless icedtea-6-jre-cacao
  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm icedtea-7-jre-jamvm icedtea-netx java-common
  libaccess-bridge-java libaccess-bridge-java-jni libice-dev libpthread-stubs0
  libpthread-stubs0-dev libsm-dev libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcb1-dev
  libxdmcp-dev libxt-dev openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless
  openjdk-6-jre-lib openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre-lib
  ttf-dejavu-extra tzdata-java x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev
  x11proto-kb-dev xorg-sgml-doctools xtrans-dev
Suggested packages:
  equivs icedtea-plugin sun-java6-fonts ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-gothic
  ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-oriya-fonts
  ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-bengali-fonts openjdk-7-demo openjdk-7-source visualvm
  icedtea6-plugin ttf-indic-fonts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java default-jre default-jre-headless icedtea-6-jre-cacao
  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm icedtea-7-jre-jamvm icedtea-netx java-common
  libaccess-bridge-java libaccess-bridge-java-jni libice-dev libpthread-stubs0
  libpthread-stubs0-dev libsm-dev libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcb1-dev
  libxdmcp-dev libxt-dev openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless
  openjdk-6-jre-lib openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless
  openjdk-7-jre-lib ttf-dejavu-extra tzdata-java x11proto-core-dev
  x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xorg-sgml-doctools xtrans-dev
0 upgraded, 33 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in openjdk-7 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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