Re: Policy: java1-runtime
On Friday 15 August 2003 11:02, Philipp Meier wrote:
> 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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Surely this says that having explicit runtime-? virtual packages is the wrong
way to go. What is needed is that the virtual package has a version and then
it can be compared in the normal way.
David
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