Activity log for bug #1455275

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2015-05-14 23:57:27 TJ bug added bug
2015-05-15 00:13:16 TJ description This affects Trusty and possibly others.. I hit it whilst backporting JavaFX (openjfx). The package installs an incorrect symbolic link when trying to alias the alternative hyphen and dot-separated names, causing packages looking for "/usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar" to fail to build. $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> werken.xpath-0.9.4.jar The manual work-around is to fix the link: $ sudo ln -fs /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 May 15 00:42 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar This affects Trusty and possibly others. I hit it whilst backporting JavaFX (openjfx): Execution failed for task ':graphics:classes'. > Could not list contents of '/usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar'. The package installs an incorrect symbolic link when trying to alias the alternative hyphen and dot-separated names, causing packages looking for "/usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar" to fail to build. $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> werken.xpath-0.9.4.jar The manual work-around is to fix the link: $ sudo ln -fs /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 May 15 00:42 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar
2015-05-16 00:25:49 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:~saiarcot895/ubuntu/trusty/werken.xpath/fix-symlink
2015-05-16 00:33:24 Saikrishna Arcot description This affects Trusty and possibly others. I hit it whilst backporting JavaFX (openjfx): Execution failed for task ':graphics:classes'. > Could not list contents of '/usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar'. The package installs an incorrect symbolic link when trying to alias the alternative hyphen and dot-separated names, causing packages looking for "/usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar" to fail to build. $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> werken.xpath-0.9.4.jar The manual work-around is to fix the link: $ sudo ln -fs /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 May 15 00:42 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar [Impact] Due to an incorrect symlink created in the package, using this Java library with another Java application (or, in this case, building Gradle) will fail. [Test Case] The simplest would be to use this library in some way. The only application that I personally know of that uses this library is Gradle. ("apt-cache rdepends libwerken.xpath-java" says that this library is also used in velocity.) [Regression Potential] Minimal. This is fixing a symlink created by the package, and (at least as of Vivid) this package is used in only one other package. [Original Description] This affects Trusty and possibly others. I hit it whilst backporting JavaFX (openjfx): Execution failed for task ':graphics:classes'. > Could not list contents of '/usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar'. The package installs an incorrect symbolic link when trying to alias the alternative hyphen and dot-separated names, causing packages looking for "/usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar" to fail to build. $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> werken.xpath-0.9.4.jar The manual work-around is to fix the link: $ sudo ln -fs /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 27 2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 May 15 00:42 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar
2015-05-22 02:06:49 Micah Gersten nominated for series Ubuntu Precise
2015-05-22 02:06:49 Micah Gersten bug task added werken.xpath (Ubuntu Precise)
2015-05-22 02:06:49 Micah Gersten nominated for series Ubuntu Trusty
2015-05-22 02:06:49 Micah Gersten bug task added werken.xpath (Ubuntu Trusty)
2015-05-22 02:07:44 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu): status New Invalid
2015-05-22 02:08:20 Saikrishna Arcot bug watch added http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749576
2015-05-22 02:08:20 Saikrishna Arcot bug task added werken.xpath (Debian)
2015-05-22 02:12:00 Saikrishna Arcot bug added subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors Team
2015-05-22 02:15:02 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:~saiarcot895/ubuntu/precise/werken.xpath/fix-symlink
2015-05-22 03:24:42 Bug Watch Updater werken.xpath (Debian): status Unknown Fix Released
2015-05-22 14:25:29 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Precise): status New In Progress
2015-05-22 14:25:31 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Precise): assignee Micah Gersten (micahg)
2015-05-22 14:25:35 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Precise): importance Undecided High
2015-05-22 14:25:37 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Trusty): importance Undecided High
2015-05-22 14:25:39 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Trusty): assignee Micah Gersten (micahg)
2015-05-22 14:25:41 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Trusty): status New In Progress
2015-05-22 14:41:03 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Precise): status In Progress Fix Committed
2015-05-22 14:41:05 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Precise): assignee Micah Gersten (micahg)
2015-05-22 14:41:11 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Trusty): assignee Micah Gersten (micahg)
2015-05-22 14:41:15 Micah Gersten werken.xpath (Ubuntu Trusty): status In Progress Fix Committed
2015-05-22 14:44:01 Micah Gersten removed subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors Team
2015-05-22 14:58:41 Saikrishna Arcot bug added subscriber Saikrishna Arcot
2015-06-03 14:36:56 Chris J Arges bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2015-06-03 14:36:59 Chris J Arges bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2015-06-03 14:37:03 Chris J Arges tags verification-needed
2015-06-22 08:26:56 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/werken.xpath/precise-proposed
2015-06-22 08:27:05 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/werken.xpath/trusty-proposed
2015-08-18 02:54:14 Mathew Hodson tags verification-needed verification-done-trusty verification-needed-precise
2015-08-18 02:57:16 Mathew Hodson werken.xpath (Ubuntu): status Invalid Fix Released
2015-08-20 19:34:41 Launchpad Janitor werken.xpath (Ubuntu Trusty): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2015-08-20 19:34:46 Brian Murray removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2015-09-01 20:59:26 Mathew Hodson werken.xpath (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2015-11-19 20:29:51 Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot tags verification-done-trusty verification-needed-precise removal-candidate verification-done-trusty verification-needed-precise
2016-05-12 13:20:20 Martin Pitt tags removal-candidate verification-done-trusty verification-needed-precise removal-candidate verification-done-trusty
2016-05-12 13:20:23 Martin Pitt werken.xpath (Ubuntu Precise): status Fix Committed Won't Fix
2016-05-12 13:20:28 Martin Pitt removed subscriber SRU Verification