hi joerg, On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:23:58AM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: > I've got a bug report (#336527) my package bootchart-view do not work > with j2re1.3. But j2re1.3 is not in Debian. Can I set a conflict upon a > packages that is not in Debian? But if it do not work with j2re1.3 it > should more than ever not work with older version. But I would assume > older version have different packages names. So I must add a list of > packages names (j2re1.3 j2re1.2 j2re1.1), because I can not use the > version clause (j2re1.3 (<< 1.3)). So what should I do? adding conflicts lines for packages that don't exist in debian has limited effectiveness imo. even if there are packages (blackdown, or whatever) for j2re, i would imagine that there's a large number of users out there (myself included) who simply download the installer from sun and installed java sans-package. i'd consider simply adding a note to README.Debian/NEWS.Debian about said problem, and being done with it altogether. maybe leave the bug open at wishlist+wontfix for reference too, i guess. sean --
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