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  1. Bug #687263
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Comment 1 for bug 687263

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Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote :

Hi

What you see here is "intended behavior" (at least in case of the default-java symlink and update-alternatives). The issue here is probably that what Java packagers understand with "default" from what users expect. "default-java" has been used by packagers to denote the default Java implementation used for compiling Java packages.

I can clearly see how you would come to the conclusion you did and I have taken this up with the Debian Java Team. Though any changes to how default-java behaves is out of the question for Maverick (too many packages depend on the behavior). Most likely we will introduce a new symlink for this purpose in Natty (or later).

As for java-wrappers and how it handles this case. I suspect the tool will need an update to properly handle this case; whether this can make it into Maverick is an entirely different case. Since I do not work on this tool I will not make any promises on this; however, you should be able to work around this issue by using JAVA_FLAVOR (see man 7 java-wrappers).

~Niels