Comment 2 for bug 24554

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:00:36 +0200
From: Wolfgang Baer <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: java-gcj-compat: Missing dependency - renders package unusable

Package: java-gcj-compat
Version: 1.0.41-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

trying /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java gives me:

error spawning gij

Running with strace shows that the java binary assumes an
unversioned gij binary in /usr/bin

execve("/usr/bin/gij", ["./java"], [/* 39 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)

However java-gcj-compat only depends on gij-4.0 and not on the
/usr/bin/gij providing gij package.

Of course installing gij fixes the problem. So either the java
binary should be patched to look for /usr/bin/gij-4.0 or the
dependency should be updated to gij instead of gij-4.0

Regards,
Wolfgang

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages java-gcj-compat depends on:
ii fastjar 1:4.0.2-2 Jar creation utility
ii gij-4.0 4.0.2-2 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii libgcj6 4.0.2-2 Java runtime library for use with
ii libgcj6-common 4.0.2-2 Java runtime library for use with
ii libjessie-java 1.0.0-3 free implementation of the Java Se

Versions of packages java-gcj-compat recommends:
pn libgcj6-src <none> (no description available)

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