Bug#342309: java-package: can't specify update-alternatives priority; default of 315 too low

[Elliott Hughes]

Package: java-package
Version: 0.27
Severity: important


We're using make-jpkg to provide a package for Sun's JDK throughout the company. We find that
some random crappy alternatives (SableVM, say, or gij) give themselves higher priorities, so
we also need to manually "update-alternatives". We'd like to be able to choose our own priority
for Sun's JDK so we can make it so high it will always be the "best" alternative, unless
someone's gone out of their way to screw themselves over.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages java-package depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.93-5     The GNU core utilities
ii  debhelper                     5.0.7      helper programs for debian/rules
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.5      Gives a fake root environment
ii  unzip                         5.52-5     De-archiver for .zip files

java-package recommends no packages.

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