Blackdown Java

[Michael Banck]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:22:46AM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Java

BTW, (if this has not happened already) somebody might want to apply the
patch in #281780 and upload a new 'java-package' package (method 2 in
the above wiki page), in order to circumvent this annoying step
described in the wiki:

** edit /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk.sh to reflect the actual JDK
1.5 release version.


I talked to one of the Debian Java guys, but he looked pretty
indifferent to it. Seeing they are mostly concerned about getting a Free
Java implementation going I wouldn't count on java-package getting fixed
in Debian in the near future.

Not having to patch java-package would go a long way in making it easier
for users to install the latest Sun Java.


cheers,

Michael

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