Hi As some of you know, default-jdk-builddep (usually) pulls in two JDKs (openjdk-6 and gcj/gij) to create -gcj packages. However, some people are not aware of this and looking at the name of the package they assume it is the Java Team's "Default Build-Dependency" or in other words the "Right Thing" (tm) to Depend on to get a java compiler. I think the best idea is to rename default-jdk-builddep into something else that does not trigger the "Ah, this is what I should put in B-D"-instinct of our fellow maintainers and developers. If you have a suggestion for a new name, please come with it. Once we have found a new I suggest we clean up our own packages and bug the few packages outside the Java Team that actually produces -gcj packages before making default-jdk-builddep an alias of default-jdk. I think this will be easier than teaching the rest of Debian that default-jdk-builddep should be default-jdk - particularly because this mistake has found its way into the AM process[1], so currently new DDs are taught this mistake is the "Right Thing" (tm). ~Niels [1] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/nm/trunk/nm-templates/nm_ts1_followup.txt?revision=1136&view=markup
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