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java-gcj-compat package

  1. Bug #24608
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 24608

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

(In reply to comment #0)
> I upgraded from Hoary to Breezy using aptitude dist-upgrade. Before that, I had
> installed Sun's j2sdk 1.5 from the multiverse, and eclipse by unzipping the
> upstream tarball.
>
> After the upgrade, I noticed that word-completion in eclipse failed to work.
> When I looked into it, I found that eclipse was now running on GIJ instead of
> the Sun JRE, because the java entry in /etc/alternatives was now pointing to GIJ.
>
> Other entries changed this way were the entry for jar and the entries for java
> and jar's manuals.
>
> I recall no questions asked about this at all during the upgrade.

not a bug.

  update-alternatives --display java

should display the alternatives used. the free java alternatives do have a
higher priority than the non-free ones.