Broken multi-arch support

[Benjamin Drung]

openjdk-6-jre:i386 (version 6b24~pre3-0ubuntu1) fails to install on a multi-arched amd64 precise system due to a conffile conflict. openjdk-6-jre-headless contains /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/java.policy, but is markd as Multi-Arch: same. Full installation error:

(Reading database ... 262232 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openjdk-6-jre-headless:i386 (from .../openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24~pre3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/skipper/archive/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24~pre3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 conffile './etc/java-6-openjdk/security/java.policy' is not in sync with other instances of the same package
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /home/skipper/archive/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24~pre3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of icedtea-6-jre-jamvm:i386:
 icedtea-6-jre-jamvm:i386 depends on openjdk-6-jre-headless (= 6b24~pre3-0ubuntu1); however:
  Package openjdk-6-jre-headless:i386 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing icedtea-6-jre-jamvm:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of icedtea-6-jre-cacao:i386:
 icedtea-6-jre-cacao:i386 depends on openjdk-6-jre-headless (= 6b24~pre3-0ubuntu1); however:
  Package openjdk-6-jre-headless:i386 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing icedtea-6-jre-cacao:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 icedtea-6-jre-jamvm:i386
 icedtea-6-jre-cacao:i386

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

multi-arch support still doesn't work in openjdk-6 6b24-1.11-0ubuntu1. Attached the diff between the i386 and amd64 version of /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/java.policy

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

multi-arch support still doesn't work in openjdk-6 6b24-1.11-2ubuntu1. The differences in /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/java.policy are fixed, but there are other files that differ. I checked the whole package and found following differences:

In openjdk-6-jre /usr/share/application-registry/openjdk-6-archive.applications differs (diff attached). In openjdk-6-jre-headless the files /usr/share/doc/openjdk-6-jre-headless/JAVA_HOME and /usr/share/doc/openjdk-6-jre-headless/README.alternatives differ (diff attached).

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

It's finally fixed in openjdk-6 6b24-1.11-4ubuntu1.

[Drew Snellgrove (forkinme-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug seems to have reappeared in 6b24-1.11.1-4ubuntu1:

$ sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install openjdk-6-jre:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  icedtea-plugin:i386
Recommended packages:
  ttf-dejavu-extra:i386 icedtea-netx:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openjdk-6-jre:i386
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
85 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/232 kB of archives.
After this operation, 706 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 161613 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openjdk-6-jre:i386 (from .../openjdk-6-jre_6b24-1.11.1-4ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre_6b24-1.11.1-4ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 './usr/share/applications/openjdk-6-policytool.desktop' is different from the same file on the system
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre_6b24-1.11.1-4ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Drew, I filed a new bug for it: LP #980351