Bug#764630: RFS: javatools 0.48 [RC]

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Markus Koschany <apo at gambaru.de> wrote:
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> Actually what was the reasoning behind the choice to use a custom shell
> script like jarwrapper instead of jexec to register executable jars with
> binfmt-misc? This question also came up in the bug report.

Here is my guess:
`jexec` only works with openjdk installed. At one point debian had
multiple java implementation (sun, kaffe...). These days only two
really remains, so maybe an easier solution would be to have a
`gcj-exec` provided by `gcj-jdk` to mimic openjdk package. Which means
it would be much easier to handle the LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue within the
`gcj-exec` executable.

jarwrapper is only really needed with a custom jre installation...

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