Le 15/02/2018 à 13:03, gregor herrmann a écrit :
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:58:01 +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote:The "Provides: foo-api (>= 1.8)" mentioned elsewhere in the thread sounds also neat for java packages, but it does not seem to be implemented.It's '(= $version') and we do have these versioned Provides since a couple of years [0], they just haven't made their way into Policy yet: https://bugs.debian.org/761219
Thanks.I meant not implemented for java, specifically. But I was wrong: we do have e.g. java8-runtime-headless listed in
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txtSo the package mentioned by Vincent may be better off Depending on it rather than on default-jre-headless (>= anything).
Kind regards, Thibaut.