Re: /usr/bin/jar and Provides:

["Arnaud Vandyck" <avandyck@gmail.com>]

On 10/30/06, Jon Dowland <jon@alcopop.org> wrote:
> Hello java maintainers,

Hi Jon,

[...]

> My package requires an implementation of /usr/bin/jar during
> build-time.  This is an alternative on the Debian system,
> with two packages providing it to my knowledge[2]: fastjar
> and the sun JDK.

[...]

> I'm mailing the list to see what other Java maintainer's
> think.

you can depend on java-gcj-compat-dev, it provides all the jdk tools.

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Arnaud Vandyck