Bug#283496: Why libant1.5-java is in section devel (where it belongs) while libant1.6-java is in libs ?

[Kalle Kivimaa]

Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@dsvidf.cea.fr> writes:
>   Well, the title should be quite easy to understand :-) ! I wonder
>   as well why the package is called libant and not simply ant, since
>   this is a program in itself, even if it is distributed as a jar
>   file.

libant contains the library jar file and should thus be under lib.
Under devel you have the ant wrapper package.

>   Moreover, there should be a simple wrapped script so that we don't
>   need to call java -jar ... but simply ant.

Please install package 'ant' which does exactly this.

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