Comment 7 for bug 446282

I'm on Maverick (10.10) and I see the same thing ... I guess that the only workaround is to (as usually is the case) to not use apt-get / synaptic for anything java-related (?)

I don't think I've ever been able to use the built in packaging of java libraries / ide's etc (bad dependencies, run-as user issues etc) .. these issues have been going on for years - maybe it is not worth the effort trying to provide java using apt-get / synaptic ?

To me, it seems as though using apt-get / synaptic for java related sw adds 0 value (as it never works cleanly) but introduces several problems that make it harder to manage your workstation.