On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:17, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Comments below. > > Blair Zajac wrote: > > Package: java-package > > Version: 0.27 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch > > Barry, what do you think about this? tag it wontfix? add a note in the > README.Debian? close it? add a note in the Debian Java FAQ? > If you close it, you'll just get more bug reports. As Blair says below, many of the people who use java-package will want/expect sun's/ibm's java as the default system java.
> > The priority of the java-gcj-compat* packages is 1040 which is larger > > than the priority of the packages created with java-package (313-315). > > > > It appears that if people take the effort to build private .debs of > > these non-free Java packages, then they should get priority over the > > other free packages that come in the main Debian distribution, > > otherwise, the non-free Java's are not used by default. > > Debian is about free software ;-) non-free software should not have a > bigger priority than free software... > > > I ran this in the java-package-0.27 source directory to increase the > > priorities by a factor of 10 and built my private version of > > java-package to give Sun's JDK priority. > > > > perl -w -i -p -e 's/priority=(\d+)/priority=$+0/' */install A better solution might be to add an alternatives-priority option to make-jpkg. Andrew V. _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
