Bug#452750: icedtea-java7: building the Ubuntu package on Debian while it's not yet in the Debian archive

[Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>]

Hi,

since icedtea ist still in NEW, but a coworker wants to test a 64bit
java plugin (actually just any java plugin that works in his 64bit
browser) I just rebuilt the Ubuntu package (7~b24-1.5+20080118-1) in a
testing/unstable pbuilder environment (regenerated debian/control first)
and will let him test tomorrow.

While building, I made the following observations (and fixes):

* Build-Depends:
  I had to switch to 'libungif4-dev | libgif-dev', otherwise I end up
  with a package that conflicts with a lot of packages due to libgif4.

* section assignment:
  icedtea-java7-plugin probably should be in 'web', not 'devel'

Everything else seemed to work fine, besides that

* It uses a huge amount of space while building ...

(and now I have a 15 GB ramdisk on /tmp)


Andreas