Add typical usage to README.debian file

[sven/java-package.git] / debian / README.Debian

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 74551da49b39524f476ecc64a09fb8116292f201..daef0e549b9412e8f7e93f6f08e65ab3cef04aa4 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -4,9 +4,17 @@ java-package
 This package can be used to install various non-free external Java packages
 under Debian.
 
+Please note that Debian recommends the use of openjdk-6-jdk/openjdk-6-jre
+or openjdk-7-jdk/openjdk-7-jre.
+
 It includes the 'make-jpkg' command to do this, see 'man make-jpkg' for more
 information about generating java packages.
 
+Typical usage consists in
+- downloading one of the java binary archive listed below
+- invoking make-jpkg to build a Debian package from the downloaded archive
+- installing the generated package
+
 Supported packages currently include:
 
  * Oracle :
@@ -20,6 +28,6 @@ Supported packages currently include:
    (Choose tar.gz archives, i586 or amd64, do _not_ choose the RPM!)
 
 All other previously supported jvm (Blackdown, IBM, ..) have been removed and
-will only be added back on users demand
+will only be added back on users demand.
 
  -- Cédric Pineau <cedric.pineau@gmail.com>  Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:42:13 +0100