Le 15/02/2018 à 14:15, Vincent Bernat a écrit :
❦ 15 février 2018 13:36 +0100, Thibaut Paumard <thibaut@debian.org> :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.txt So the package mentioned by Vincent may be better off Depending on it rather than on default-jre-headless (>= anything).You cannot depend on a virtual package, am I wrong?
You can. The problem is when your package may be used as a build-dependency within the Debian infrastructure:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends.html Regards, Thibaut.