Bug#395400: java-package: please Provides: jar for the sdk packages

[Andrew Vaughan]

Hi

On Friday 27 October 2006 05:26, Jon Dowland wrote:
> I have a program which requires an implementation of "jar" at
> build-time. The Build-Depends line is non-trivial because nobody
> specifies a "jar" virtual package.

Any reason you can't just depend on fastjar?  

Package: fastjar
Uncompressed Size: 225k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Description: Jar creation utility
 Replacement for Suns .jar creation program.  It is written in C instead of 
java and is tons faster.

HTH
Andrew V.