Re: Policy: java1-runtime

[Daniel Bonniot <Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr>]

> > Deprecated features are still available. There are still tagged, so that 
> > their use is discouraged, since they might be removed in a later 
> > release. As far as I know, nothing has ever been removed yet.
> > Technically, if a package requires the java1 API, it will run with a 
> > java2 implementation. So I maintain that java 2 runtimes should provide 
> > java1-runtime.
> >    
>
> Currently this is true of the official and blackdown implementations. 
So blackdown's packages should provide java1-runtime. Does the packager
read this?

> I've never 
> seen anything that says deprecated methods are guaranteed to exist until API 
> version X, or that they're guranteed to be removed by version X. So I would say 
> that it is not safe to assume that all java2 runtimes, even mainstream ones, are 
> guaranteed to always be java1 compliant.
I agree, we should not assume that. So it seems the policy is right in
using "and/or".

Daniel