Re: dummy java2-runtime in sid?
Hi
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:11:16PM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> W li?cie z czw, 08-08-2002, godz. 13:51, Grzegorz Prokopski pisze:
> > W li?cie z czw, 08-08-2002, godz. 11:21, Thomas J. Zeeman pisze:
> > > > I'm sure there used to be a dummy java package so that you could install
> > > > packages that depended on a jre package, but you supplied your own?
> > > Yup, they used to exist. They've been pulled 'cause ftp-masters don't
> > > seem to like dummy-packages. See
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2002/debian-java-200202/msg00002.html
> > > for more on this.
This is the main problem. I was trying to argue with them but they did
never respond so in order to get things going I removed that kind of stuff
from java-common.
> > > You can always build your own dummy with the equivs package.
True.
> > So that we weren't forced to reinvent the wheel all the time - I'd
> > suggest having the set of control files (for equivs) for those dummy
> > packages included in java-common.
Sure. File a bug to java-common. Patches are appriciated.
> > I am offering myself to prepare them if java-common maintainer thinks
> > too that this would be good. (Because of small size it wouldn't make
> > much sense to have separate java-common-dummies package just with them).
Sure.
> Control files and builded debs are available at:
> http://www.home.sente.pl/greg/dummy-packages/
> compressed in one file
> http://www.home.sente.pl/greg/dummy-packages/dummy-packages.tgz
>
> Those 5 debs are together only 11k in size, so we could almost as well
> just include _them_ in java-common ;-) not the *.control files
Well I do not really like the idea of including .debs in a deb
file. :)
> If those *.control files go into java-common, then we should have
> at least Suggests: equivs in java-common.
True. Please file a bug (wishlist) to java-common if you like that
idea.
Regards,
// Ola
> Regards
>
> Grzegorz B. Prokopski
>
> PS: Now I am gonna finally fix all the dependencies of my java packages
> ;-)
:)
>
>
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