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

[Andrew Vaughan]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:17, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> 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?
>
If you close it, you'll just get more bug reports.  As Blair says below, 
many of the people who use java-package will want/expect sun's/ibm's java  
as the default system java. 

> > 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

A better solution might be to add an alternatives-priority option to 
make-jpkg.

Andrew V.