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[Bug 426920] Re: Upgrading openjdk overrides existing alternatives javac setting

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From: Matthias Klose <matthias.klose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:37:33 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 426920 <426920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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the alternatives are only set at configure time. if they are set to
automatic mode, then manually configured alternatives should not be
changed.

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Upgrading openjdk overrides existing alternatives javac setting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426920
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Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: update-manager

When update-manager upgrades some package (I think is it openjdk), my existing /etc/alternatives javac setting gets replaced with the default. This means suddenly my system is running java apps using openjdk instead of sun's java. It should respect and preserve the alternatives setting, or at the very minimum, should warn me that it is changing this important setting. This has hit me several times over the last year or two.

Apologies if this is not actually an update-manager problem. I reported it here since this is the app that is running when the problem happens.

Running Ubuntu 9.04, update-manager  1:0.111.9