java ant missing

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:27 +0100, Olve Hansen wrote:
 
> So libant1.6 is supported, but not ant. Interesting. Although the
> former is useless without the latter.

libant1.{5,6}-java reside in universe; universe is not officially
supported.

> I am just wondering why a package supported in debian is not
> available in ubuntu..

The reason that you don't see it in the Ubuntu repositories is that it
fails to build:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~lamont/buildLogs/a/ant/1.6.2-2/

If you really want it, try to fix the package and become a MOTU.
-- 
Dennis K.
  And that's the way the cookie crumbles!