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

2006-10-30 Thread Marcus Better
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

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

2006-10-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:02:34AM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: You said it was a build-dep. Yes. There is nothing wrong with forcing a user to install fastjar in order to build the package. I rather disagree: it's a disservice to our user's to force them to do anything, if it isn't

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

2006-10-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:26:02PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: Disclaimer: I'm very sorry but I haven't actually *tried* this patch. I can try it next week, when I return to work. I've now tried this patch with sun-j2sdk1.5 and it works. I can try some other JDKs (blackdown, IBM) tomorrow.

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

2006-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: java-package Version: 0.28 Severity: minor Tags: patch I have a program which requires an implementation of jar at build-time. The Build-Depends line is non-trivial because nobody specifies a jar virtual package. Please adjust the sdk packages to Provides: jar. Patch attached.

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

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Friday 27 October 2006 05:26, Jon Dowland wrote: I have a program which requires an implementation of jar at build-time. The Build-Depends line is non-trivial because nobody specifies a jar virtual package. Any reason you can't just depend on fastjar? Package: fastjar Uncompressed

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

2006-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 06:03:19AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan 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. -- Jon