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Hi
The change you suggest will solve your particular problem, but for someone wanting to do the "other way" transformation (etc. sun-java6 -> openjdk-6) will now have a problem.
That being said, I think the reverse is probably less likely to happen in the real world and your solution here will probably be a decent work-around for Maverick. The long term solution is probably to update java-wrappers to prefer the system default java if it fulfills the requirements (also it should probably be updated to not include 4+ JVMs that are now removed from Debian) and then fall back to its chosen order (if the system default is not good enough). Though again, I am not working on java-wrappers so I will not make any decisions here.
On a side note: openjdk-6 is a vastly better choice than e.g. gcj/gij or some of the now removed JVMs such as sablevm or kaffe. I suspect the /usr/lib/jvm/* might have caught the gcj/gij before the openjdk-6; this is likely the reason why it was added early in the list.
~Niels