Re: New work on java-package
On 01/04/2012 01:51 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> [to list as well as Russ!]
>
>
> On 3 January 2012 19:17, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> To clarify: these are binaries that the previous 6u26 packages linked
>>> from /etc/alternatives, which running the present Oracle 6u30 JDK
>>> through Cedric's java-package doesn't link.
>
>> Per previous discussion on the list, apparently apt is rather obsolete and
>> has been subsumed into new javac functionality as of Java 6. I'm not sure
>> about the other ones.
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>
> apt still exists in 6u30, so should be kept for compatibility (the
> entire point of this nuisance).
no. it's deprecated, and nobody uses it. please do not add it again for this
package. I'll remove that from the openjdk packages, and add conflicts to
earlier versions providing this alternative. and I'll do that for every package
which provides this alternative.
Matthias
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