Bug#855046: openjdk-8-jre-headless (jessie-backports), can't update, ca-certificates-java too old

[Henner Heck]

Ok...still too inexperienced with the backports...and apt...and Debian.

Originally i tried a "dist-upgrade", which failed to upgrade the 
openjdk-8 packages previously installed from jessie-backports.
I investigated and thought to have found the reported bug as the root cause.
Synaptic only ever showed the 20140324 version of ca-certificates-java 
as current version. Is it not trustworthy with backports?

Thanks to the answers here, i ran
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$ apt-get install -t jessie-backports ca-certificates-java
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
   ca-certificates-java
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 134 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports/main 
ca-certificates-java all 20161107~bpo8+1 [14.8 kB]
.
.
.
done.
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Now Synaptic shows version 20161107~bpo8+1 and a "dist-upgrade" updated 
the openjdk-8 packages (openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jdk-headless 
openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless) successfully.

I am still not sure, as to why the "dist-upgrade" did not update the 
ca-certificates-java to 20161107~bpo8+1 automatically in the first place.
Possibly because the ca-certificates-java dependency for 
openjdk-8-jre-headerless has no minimum version specified?


Thank you all and best regards,
Henner Heck




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