Bug#395400: java-package: please Provides: jar for the sdk packages

Marcus Better marcus at better.se
Mon Oct 30 08:02:34 CET 2006


Jon Dowland wrote:
>> Any reason you can't just depend on fastjar?
> 
> That's what I am doing, right now. But, if a user has another jar
> implementation installed, it's not ideal to force them to install
> fastjar rather than use their preferred one.

You said it was a build-dep. There is nothing wrong with forcing a user to
install fastjar in order to build the package. Normal users don't build
packages anyway.

Please close this bug, and don't introduce an unnecessary virtual package.

Marcus







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