Oracle JDK deb: first attempt.

UPDATE: Don't do the below. I've asked on debian-java and already have a better method.

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You can't get the Oracle proprietary JDK with Ubuntu any more. This is slightly annoying as our entire platform setup will shortly be Ubuntu with Oracle JDK. This requires us handrolling a deb. (We plan to shift to OpenJDK in due course for our own sanity, but know to test thoroughly.)

I can't just upload and link a deb here for copyright reasons (otherwise this wouldn't have been a problem in the first place). What I can do is give the recipe I used. This makes a Java which I hope is suitable for the server.

Missing: desktop plugin, menu updates, unixodbc dependency, binfmt registration, MIME types, a postinst thing to "activate class data sharing". Is there anything important I've missed for Java on the server? Specifically, for Tomcat.

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