Re: Policy: java1-runtime

[Philipp Meier <meier@meisterbohne.de>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:10:42PM +0200, Daniel Bonniot wrote:

> I propose the following changes in the policy, instead of the above 
> paragraphs:
> 
> Programs /must/ depend on /java-virtual-machine/ and the needed runtime 
> environment (/java1-runtime/ or /java2-runtime/).
> 
> [JVMs] can also provide the runtime environment that the package 
> contains (java1-runtime or both java1-runtime and java2-runtime).
> 
> In particular, blackdown's packages should have:
> Provides: java1-runtime, java2-runtime

I think this is not sufficient. Jetty e.g. depends currently on a
Java2 1.3 environment. But AFAIK there is currently no way to specify
this dependency. I can only depend in java2-runtime and a j2re1.3 |
j2re1.4. Must the java policy be changed to introduce java2-runtime-1.3
and so on?

-billy.

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