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Re: java bytecode / java runtime version mismatch



> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Matthew Johnson <mjj29@debian.org> wrote:
> <snip>
> > That version uses javap -verbose, which is rather slow, other
> > suggestions welcome. It uses the following table:
> >
> > highest version in the package => depends line
> >
> > 50 => java-runtime6
> > 49 => java-runtime6 | java-runtime5
> > 48 => java-runtime6 | java-runtime5 | java-runtime2
> > <48 => java-runtime6 | java-runtime5 | java-runtime2 | java-runtime
> </snip>
> 
> This is really nice except that you have got the dependency names
> wrong. They should be java6-runtime, java5-runtime, java2-runtime etc.
> 
> And have you considered the possibility of having dependency only on
> headless runtimes? I am not sure how easy it is to detect as you will
> need to check what package each class file depends on ex. swing or awt
> etc.
> 

Maybe it's easier to only check for the proper depends in the control file and
fail in case they don't have the proper versions?

Either way, I think you must also add real packages to your Depends, all the
above are only virtual ones.

Thanks for your work,
Michael

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