Re: questions about the 'java-runtime' package....
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:20:55PM -0500, Jacob Robert Wilkins wrote:
> Pardon my igornance if this is a dumb question, the java policy and
> packaging in Debian seems to be an overcomplicated beast, and I'm not
> sure why certian things are done as they are....
>
> I have java-virtual-machine-dummy and java-compiler-dummy installed.
>
> And I have Sun's JDK living out in /usr/local.
>
> This *should* be everything I need, I should be able to get rid of
> kaffe. But....
>
> racerx:~# dpkg --purge kaffe
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of kaffe:
> jython depends on kaffe | java-runtime | java1-runtime | java2-runtime;
>
> Is this a problem with the way jython is packaged? Or should
> java-virtual-machine-dummy also provide java-runtime?
>
> Or, should there also be a seperate java-runtime-dummy package?
There is already such a package. I do not know how far it has reached
though... *checking* It seems to have been stucked in incoming since
14:th november... Quite a long time...
opal@auric:/org/ftp.debian.org/incoming$ ls -l *java*
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 613 Nov 14 03:12 java-common-non-free_0.1.dsc
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 1786 Nov 14 03:12 java-common-non-free_0.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 1175 Nov 14 03:12 java-common-non-free_0.1_i386.changes
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 708 Nov 14 03:17 java-common_0.8.dsc
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 14001 Nov 14 03:18 java-common_0.8.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 105184 Nov 14 03:17 java-common_0.8_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 2076 Nov 14 03:18 java-common_0.8_i386.changes
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 4450 Nov 14 03:17 java-compiler-dummy_0.8_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 4256 Nov 14 03:17 java-virtual-machine-dummy_0.8_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 2424 Nov 14 03:17 java1-runtime-dummy_0.8_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 1522 Nov 14 03:12 java2-compiler-dummy_0.1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 1546 Nov 14 03:12 java2-runtime-dummy_0.1_all.deb
opal@auric:/org/ftp.debian.org/incoming$
>
> Or, am I getting it all wrong?
No.
Regards,
// Ola
> Thanks,
> jrw
>
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