Bug#199673: libant1.5 is in main

Arnaud avdyk@debian.org
Tue Dec 16 11:05:01 2003


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Mark Howard <mh344@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I think a lot of people think that ant is still in contrib - they are
> right to with the naming of these packages. wouldn't it be better to
> have ant package in main and ant-extra in contrib?  Most people don't
> look at packages starting with lib when they're looking for a program.
>
> Also, it would be good if the descriptions could be updated to show
> what the difference is between the two packages and for ant to suggest
> libant1.5 perhaps?

Good idea. But I think we'll have to make two different scripts: one
that launch ant with kaffe and another with a non-free jdk.

Note: see also the problem with the JAVA_HOME environment. I don't know
      how ant can deal wihtout it?

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