Bug#347942: java-package: Increase alternative priority over java-gcj-compat*

Arnaud Vandyck avdyk at debian.org
Mon Jan 16 10:17:51 UTC 2006


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Comments below.

Blair Zajac wrote:
> Package: java-package
> Version: 0.27
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch

Barry, what do you think about this? tag it wontfix? add a note in the
README.Debian? close it? add a note in the Debian Java FAQ?

> The priority of the java-gcj-compat* packages is 1040 which is larger
> than the priority of the packages created with java-package (313-315).
> 
> It appears that if people take the effort to build private .debs of
> these non-free Java packages, then they should get priority over the
> other free packages that come in the main Debian distribution,
> otherwise, the non-free Java's are not used by default.

Debian is about free software ;-) non-free software should not have a
bigger priority than free software...

> I ran this in the java-package-0.27 source directory to increase the
> priorities by a factor of 10 and built my private version of
> java-package to give Sun's JDK priority.
> 
> perl -w -i -p -e 's/priority=(\d+)/priority=$+0/' */install


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