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[Marcel Stimberg <marcelcoding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your bug report. The openjdk-6-dbg package is not supposed to contain any executable files. -dbg packages are debug packages and only contain the "debug symbols" useful when trying to debug a program crash (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash) in a "normal" package. Everything you need for standard use is in the openjdk-6-jre (for executing java programs), openjdk-6-jdk (for writing java programs), etc. packages. 
The package description already contains the sentence "This package contains the debugging symbols.".

** Changed in: openjdk-6 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  openjdk-6-dbg has no executable files

Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The package openjdk-6-dbg installs a bunch of files, none of which are set executable.

For instance, in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin,
total 1292
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2010-12-11 13:25 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   4096 2010-12-11 13:25 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  92291 2010-11-23 01:30 java
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  92979 2010-11-23 01:30 javaws.real
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  91490 2010-11-23 01:30 keytool
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  91576 2010-11-23 01:30 orbd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  91580 2010-11-23 01:30 pack200
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  91454 2010-11-23 01:30 pluginappletviewer
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  91490 2010-11-23 01:30 policytool
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  91490 2010-11-23 01:30 rmid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  91490 2010-11-23 01:30 rmiregistry
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  91490 2010-11-23 01:30 servertool
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  91576 2010-11-23 01:30 tnameserv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 275890 2010-11-23 01:30 unpack200

Furthermore, if I run `sudo chmod a+x java`, the executable fails to start with the message
    bash: ./java: cannot execute binary file

`file java` reports
    java: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, not stripped

Please either correct this so that all files that are supposed to execute do execute properly or update the aptitude package description to include information on why this package has no executable files.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: openjdk-6-dbg 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 11 14:02:01 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openjdk-6