Comment # 5 on bug 927365 from Wolfgang Bauer

(In reply to Christian Bachmaier from comment #3)
> I know well that Oracle provides the rpms. However they are primarily
> provided for RedHat. I doubt that Oracle will consider any SUSE
> specialities, although I do not know. If they do consider, it would
> certainly be better if a SUSE official or contact person performs the
> cooperation.

Hm, I cannot help there.
But you filed this bug report against _openSUSE_ and its Java packages.
That's why I think it's invalid.

> I know this hack (under warning), and used it more than twice. However, this
> is no satisfing and no clean solution. You get many error messages from
> update-alternatives. And it is not clear (at least not to me) whether these
> are harmful.

Again, this would need to be fixed in Oracle's package IMHO.

openSUSE's update-alternatives cannot provide /usr/sbin/alternatives I think,
as it doesn't contain it.
The binary is called /usr/sbin/update-alternatives in openSUSE, the same as in
Debian.

> A clean and cooperative solution could be to provide the link from
> update-alteratives to alternatives already by the SUSE rpm of
> update-alternatives. Also it could additionally provide "alternatives" for
> compatibility. This is only a string.

I disagree with the latter, see above. And it probably wouldn't help really (if
the Oracle package does call /usr/sbin/alternatives).

The update-alternative package probably could indeed contain a symlink
/usr/sbin/alternatives (which would also satisfy the dependency), but the
question is whether Fedora's /usr/sbin/alternatives is compatible to
update-alternatives... (I have no idea)

> Using the Oracle JDK ist not something uncommon.

Well, personally I never had the need to since it got replaced by openJDK.
But that's of course not a reason to consider this bug report as invalid. ;-)

(In reply to Christian Bachmaier from comment #4)
> For reasons above, I have opened the bug again. Hope this is ok.

Fine with me. But I'm no maintainer of either Java nor update-alternatives.

I'm going to reassign it though, as this is definitely no problem of openSUSE's
Java packages.