Bug#691679: ITP: libcommons-primitives-java -- Collections and utilities for Java primitive types

[Jakub Adam <jakub.adam@ktknet.cz>]

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   Package name: libcommons-primitives-java
        Version: 1.0
Upstream Author: The Apache Software Foundation
            URL: http://commons.apache.org/primitives/
        License: Apache-1.1
    Description: Collections and utilities for Java primitive types

 The Java language is mostly Object based, however the original designers chose
 to include eight primitive types - boolean, byte, char, double, float, int,
 long and short. Commons Primitives provides a library of collections and
 utilities specially designed for use with primitive types.

 JDK 1.5 added auto-boxing to simplify working with primitive types. This is
 simply a mechanism of automatically converting a primitive to an Object and
 vice versa, an operation with potentially large memory and performance issues.
 Commons Primitives offers collections that hold the primitive type directly,
 and as a result they are usually smaller, faster and easier to work with than
 their purely Object based alternatives.