Bug#612124: Acknowledgement (libxerces2-java: Depends-line broken due to "hidden" special character)

[Gerfried Fuchs]

        Hi!

* Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> [2011-03-16 12:03:39 CET]:
> On 2011-02-06 06:19, Martin Millnert wrote:
> > An update.
> > 
> > My first assumption seems to be wrong, but something else seems to be
> > seriously wrong:
> > 
> > root at sslvpn-test:/usr/src# aptitude why libxerces2-java gcj-4.4-base
> > p   libxerces2-java      Depends  default-jre-headless | java1-runtime-headless | java2-runtime-headless
> > p   gcj-4.4-jre-headless Provides java2-runtime-headless                                                
> > p   gcj-4.4-jre-headless Depends  gcj-4.4-base (= 4.4.5-2)                                              
> > root at sslvpn-test:/usr/src# aptitude why libxerces2-java sun-java6-jre
> > p   libxerces2-java Depends  default-jre-headless | java1-runtime-headless | java2-runtime-headless
> > i   sun-java6-jre   Provides java2-runtime-headless                                                
> > 
> > http://packages.debian.org/sid/java2-runtime-headless
> > 
> > Either of the packages on the above URL should satisfy the dependency,
> > yet neither aptitute nor apt-get manages to understand that the virtual
> > package is provided for already.
> > 
> > I'm at a loss as to why this does not install w/o gcj.
> 
> Your problem is most likely that recommends are being installed by
> default and libxerces2-java recommends  libxerces2-java-gcj. (It could
> also come from a dependency of libxerces2-java(-gcj))
>   Installing recommends by default was enabled in Lenny (as I recall).

 aptitude -r install libxerces2-java doesn't give me any issues neither,
so installing it works both with or without recommends, it doesn't
matter.

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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