[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#558222: Imagej crashes with NullPointerException only java-gcj-compat is installed

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:11:58PM -0500, Manny Vindiola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was worried that this might be a bug that only affected ubuntu so I
> checked if it would run in a squeeze chroot and I it also fails with
> the NullPointerException.
> The other thing is it is probably better for the binary to depend on
> default-jre instead of openjdk-6-jre as it has not been ported to all
> debian architectures. However you might still have a runtime error for
> the architectures that use gcj-jre as the default: [avr32, hppa,
> hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k].

Thanks for your bug report and the hints how to solve this.  I'll report
the problem upstream and will most probably go with the openjdk-6-jre
preference because it is better to fix a known problem.  Perhaps somebody
is able to test on those architectures.

Kind regards

       Andreas. 

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