/usr/bin/jar and Provides:

2006-10-30 Thread Jon Dowland
list to see what other Java maintainer's think. [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/395364> [2] I originally mistook 'jar-sablevm' as being another implementation, but is in fact just a wrapper around fastjar. [3] <http://bugs.debian.org/395397> [4] <http://bugs

Bug#395374: java-common: [policy] clarify whether java-policy is normative

2006-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: java-common Version: 0.25 Severity: normal Is java-policy normative? That is, is a violation of a "should" or "must" clause in java-policy a "policy violation" and thus an RC bug? My belief is not, because a) it doesn't state in java-policy that it is a "sub-policy" b) java-policy is no

Bug#395372: java-common: [policy] relax or expand the "binaries in /usr/bin" restriction (2.3)

2006-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- no debconf information add /usr/games as a valid location for a java package's binary, where appropriate.