installing a package that wants the "wrong" java

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Florian Diesch wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Florian Diesch wrote:
> >
> >> You could check with update-java-alternatives what's the currently
> >> active Java package and use debconf to display a warning, see the
> >> debconf-devel manpage
> >
> >   um ... from where comes debconf-devel?  i've done an apt-cache
> > search and i don't see the origin of debconf-devel.
>
> Sorry, it's in the package debconf-doc

  ah, thanks.  this might be the solution i was looking for.  will
test later when i get the chance.

rday

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