Bug#732320: java-package: for jdk provide alternative to bin/java rather than jre/bin/java

[Niels Thykier]

Package: java-package
Version: 0.53
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-CC: debian at ginguppin.de
Control: submitter -1 debian at ginguppin.de


Hi Arne,

With this mail I am turning your mail into a bug report (maintainers,
please see below).  If your reportbug silently fails, it may be because
the STMP settings for it are wrong.  You can still report bugs by using
the mail interface (like I am now) or alternatively, contact one of the
Debian support channels for help with checking the settings.

~Niels

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: java-package: for jdk provide alternative to bin/java rather
than jre/bin/java
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:08:28 +0100
From: arne anka <debian at ginguppin.de>
To: pkg-java-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org

since for some reason my reportbug sumission seems not to go through (at
least i never get a confirmation), below the text again

Subject: java-package: for jdk provide alternative to bin/java rather than
jre/bin/java
Package: java-package
Version: 0.53
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
when creating a deb package from the JDK there should be a (and probably
the default one) pointing to bin/java (and all other tools) rather than
jre/bin/java.
firstly, a JDK is usually installed to be used as JDK not a JRE (else one
would use the JRE to begin with). secondly, Eclipse/ANT continually
complaints about the java exec not being from an JDK, preventing the use
of the same JRE as Eclipse uses and thus a several features requiring ANT
to use the same java as Eclipse does.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
      APT prefers unstable
      APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages java-package depends on:
ii  debhelper   9.20130921
ii  fakeroot    1.20-1
ii  libasound2  1.0.27.2-3
ii  libx11-6    2:1.6.2-1
ii  unzip       6.0-10

Versions of packages java-package recommends:
ii  dpkg-dev  1.17.1
ii  gcc       4:4.8.1-3

Versions of packages java-package suggests:
pn  openjdk-6-jre  <none>
pn  openjdk-7-jre  <none>

-- debconf information:
* java-package/postinst-note:

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