[Bug 1455275] Re: Incorrect SymLink causes build failures in other packages

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** Changed in: werken.xpath (Debian)
       Status: Unknown => Fix Released

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Title:
  Incorrect SymLink causes build failures in other packages

Status in werken.xpath package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in werken.xpath source package in Precise:
  New
Status in werken.xpath source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in werken.xpath package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Due to an incorrect symlink created in the package, using this Java
  library with another Java application (or, in this case, building
  Gradle) will fail.

  [Test Case]

  The simplest would be to use this library in some way. The only
  application that I personally know of that uses this library is
  Gradle. ("apt-cache rdepends libwerken.xpath-java" says that this
  library is also used in velocity.)

  [Regression Potential]

  Minimal. This is fixing a symlink created by the package, and (at
  least as of Vivid) this package is used in only one other package.

  [Original Description]

  This affects Trusty and possibly others. I hit it whilst backporting
  JavaFX (openjfx):

  Execution failed for task ':graphics:classes'.
  > Could not list contents of '/usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar'.

  The package installs an incorrect symbolic link when trying to alias
  the alternative hyphen and dot-separated names, causing packages
  looking for "/usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar" to fail to build.

  $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken*
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27  2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 Jan 27  2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 Jan 27  2012 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> werken.xpath-0.9.4.jar

  The manual work-around is to fix the link:

  $ sudo ln -fs /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar
  /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar

  $ ls -l /usr/share/java/werken*
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76418 Jan 27  2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 Jan 27  2012 /usr/share/java/werken-xpath.jar -> werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    38 May 15 00:42 /usr/share/java/werken.xpath.jar -> /usr/share/java/werken-xpath-0.9.4.jar

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