Bug#609665: libgcj10: please provide ABI virtual package

[Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:03:33PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 07:51:37PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>> To avoid that situation, libreoffice-gcj needs a dependency on "a
>> version of libgcj-jre that wraps around/symlinks a version of
>> libgcjN, for a good value of N, that works with .jar.so files
>> generated by the gcj used at compile-time".

> So the ideal solution would be libgcj-bc (>= 4.4.5-1~), gcj-jre (>=
> 4.4.5-1~) in .shlibs, no?

I think that no, because some packages that ship with .jar.so files
won't need the compatibility symlinks in gcj-jre, e.g. if they call
"gij" (or "gij-${VERSION}") directly instead of calling "java" or
"/lib/jvm/*/bin/java".

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Lionel