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

arne anka debian at ginguppin.de
Tue Oct 29 19:08:37 UTC 2013


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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