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Re: Virtual Packages proposal



On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 09:44:16PM -0500, Adam P. Harris wrote:
> 
> >ANy need to depend: on jdk1.0 or jdk1.1 yet though?
> Sure.   I've been consider packaging jCVS, which would require 
> java-virtual-machine and the classes from the 1.1 JDK.

Fair enough.

> However, I agree with Anand WRT naming.  I think we need the following.  
> Proposed new virtual package names have + in the left-most column:
> 
> +  java-compiler-1.0
>  + java-compiler-1.1
> +  java-virtual-machine-1.0
> +  java-classes-1.0
> +  java-classes-1.1 

> The point is to have specifications-driven virtual package names.  I 
> think this is the right abstraction to embrace.

Sounds good to me. Except that I'll have to dig around to find out
which version guavac implements :-) We should discuss this on debian-policy
to get it approved.


Hamish
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