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

[Arnaud Vandyck]

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:40:46 +0200, 
Kalle Kivimaa <killer@debian.org> wrote: 

> 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.

So libant1.5-java should be in libs too.

>>   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.

Note that ant is in contrib while libantXXX is in main. This is because
ant provides more jars (and some are in contrib or can be built with
non-free jdk's only -- swing problem for splash screen etc...).

Cheers,

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