Stephen Zander wrote:
Also, WTF is with all the "Architecture: all' -java packages that only depend on java-common? While I guess they're installable without a java runtime on this system, they're a completely unusable in that sate.
The changelog for java-common 0.15 says:
* Java libraries should now only suggest java-virtual-machine,
closes: #159448.
The explanation from http://bugs.debian.org/159448 is:
Libraries don't have to depend on java-virtual-machine since they are
not run by end-users. For example, they can be used by Jikes to compile
Java classes without an installed JVM (if the Debian jikes package
didn't depend on java-virtual-machine). They don't even need a
dependency on java-common since there's no tool yet to manage the JAR
symlink in /usr/share/java.
Regards, Stefan Gybas