Hello, I've now testet: sudo dpkg-divert --rename /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/jre/lib/security/local_policy.jar sudo dpkg-divert --rename /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/jre/lib/security/US_export_policy.jar out of the README.Debian (6.20-dlj-4), but I tested this for Debian 5.0.4, so I had to use: dpkg-divert --rename /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/jre/lib/security/local_policy.jar dpkg-divert --rename /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/jre/lib/security/US_export_policy.jar
After aptitude safe-upgrade the directory /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12 vanished and in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/jre/lib/security/ the files from the debian package were used. My changed files "local_policy.jar" and "US_export_policy.jar" were deleted! So I assume this "workaround" doesn't work if the version of java (like here 1.6.0.12 to 1.6.0.20) changes. (It's very dangerous because you notice the change only after the java vm is restartet. This can happen long after the upgrade of java, so the java developers will be puzzled what's suddenly wrong!) Isn't it possible to put these two files in /etc/java-6-sun/security/ , like the file cacerts, and symlink? With this I'll be asked if I want to overwrite my changes or not, with cacerts this works very well! Apropos configuration files in /etc, the file /etc/java-6-sun/security/cacerts doesn't seem to look well in vi, so i suppose local_policy.jar and US_export_policy.jar could be also there. Upstream - cacerts, local_policy.jar and US_export_policy.jar ARE in the same dirctory (lib/security/)! -- greetings eMHa
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