Re: guavac bug #22325
> Bug #22325, marked important, says that my package guavac has an
> unsatisfied suggestion on java-virtual-machine. I need your
> advice on what to do about it.
>
> My thoughts are:
>
> 1. It's a suggestion only, so nothing will break if it doesn't exist.
> Unfortunately dselect is a bit picky about even suggestions.
> At the time I last built it, kaffe existed [albeit it in contrib]
> which satisfied the suggestion. (Interestingly there's my reported
> bug #16652 IIRC which says that javalex should move to contrib
> since it depends: java-virtual-machine -- but even that move won't
> solve its deps now). Perhaps there's the standard bug in dselect,
> `dselect is not user friendly', here.
>
> 2. It's a bug in some other package that java-virtual-machine doesn't exist.
> It's a registered virtual package name, AFAIK, so at one stage
> it must have been provided. jdk1.1-runtime should probably provide it
> but doesn't [bug?].
>
> 3. I could built it again without the suggestion. However the suggestion is
> valid, and more to the point, with the C++ compiler changeover
> it doesn't build out of the box. This is bad in its own right, but
> I think not `important'. I will have to spend some time tweaking it,
> and then hope that it still works as a result. I would prefer to avoid
> this.
I'd do either:
1) ignore the "suggests" problem
2) repack the existing package to remove the "suggests" line.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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