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Re: Packages that require Java 2 ?



On Tuesday 11 September 2001 13:11, Marcus Crafter wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > I tend to agree that the name java2-virtual-machine is a little
> > misleading and perhaps silly (a remnant from when "virtual machine"
> > was a hot buzzword).  Perhaps something like java2-runtime?
>
> 	java2-runtime is fine with me. My only concern is that it differs from
> 	the pre set standard java-virtual-machine.
>
> 	If we go ahead with java2-runtime I would advocate obsoleting
> 	java-virtual-machine in favour of java(1?)-runtime for java1 packages.
> 	I think it's important to keep things consistent.

I agree. And since we are rather close to a freeze, a policy change does not
sounds a good thing...

Can everyone approve with java2-virtual-machine for Woody and
java[2]-runtime for Sid?

Egon



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