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[Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So you are breaking the alternatives system. What's the point in calling
a binary the user has expressed explicitly he don't want?

In any case, provide a javaws.desktop in common package (¿java-common?)
which does this, at least.

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openjdk-6-javaws.desktop should point to javaws in /etc/alternatives
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520711
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Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
The package install javaws as an alternative, yet in the desktop file the non-alternative version is used.

Exec=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/javaws %u

should be changed to either...

Exec=/usr/bin/javaws %u

or

Exec=/etc/alternatives/javaws %u