Bug#288986: make-jpkg could determine version of Java from 'java -version'

[Russell Howe]

Package: java-package
Version: 0.18
Severity: wishlist

Rather than take a guess from the filename and size of the archive, why
not extract the archive and then run "java -version" from the extracted
files and parse the result? Surely that would be more reliable, although
it would require that the system building the package could run the
version of Java being packaged...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1-paobu
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages java-package depends on:
ii  debhelper                     4.2.28     helper programs for debian/rules

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