openjdk-7-jre depends on openjdk-6-jre

ca-certificates-java needs an update

Adding java-access-bridge because it's another cause of this dependency, see bug #884626 for details.

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

openjdk-7-jre-headless doesn't have this problem.

The issue was reported more than two months ago. Can anybody please tell me when the issue will be resolved?

For oneiric and later:

A needed fix in ca-certificates-java is to change the dependency line from:
  openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b16-1.6.1-2) | java6-runtime-headless,
to:
  default-jre-headless | java6-runtime-headless

It "works" right now, but this is a correction to the current case as seen on oneiric, which really should not mention openjdk directly.

The distributed version of openjdk-6 in oneiric base is 6b23~pre10, which definitely supersedes 6b16 above. (opeiric-updates has 6b23~pre11.) However, if there are concerns about pre-release binaries causing problems here, default-java packages could depend on >= 6b22 explicitly to ensure that any such packages are upgraded.

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The proper fix for java-access-bridge is to change the dependency in libaccess-bridge-java from:
  default-jre | openjdk-6-jre | sun-java6-jre
to:
  default-jre | java6-runtime

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I can produce a patch for this, but is anyone paying attention and willing to apply it? (hrm, thinking about PPA'ing)

I believe that the libaccess-bridge-java change could be filed upstream, but I'm not sure about ca-certificates-java off the top of my head.

Here's the change for oneiric for java-access-bridge. With this change, installing openjdk-{jdk,jre} no longer pulls in any openjdk-6 components by default. I have not tried this change for precise, but my gut feeling is that it will probably Just Work.

For those who cannot wait for this change in oneiric, I've built it in the PPA https://launchpad.net/~duh/+archive/duh (ppa:duh/duh).

Bah, previous comment should have said "...installing openjdk-7-{jdk,jre} no longer pulls in any openjdk-6 components by default."

Note: ca-certificates-java "works" as noted in comment 7, thus I set it to Fix Released for that package only. The patch in comment 8 needs to be applied to java-access-bridge in order to fix this bug completely.

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are there plans for v7 as a backport to pre-oneric?
will the Debian project be pulling this into squeeze or testing?

For what it's worth, ubuntu 12.04 alpha 1 doesn't seem to suffer from this at the moment.