Re: java-package: *removing* the *debian packages
On Mon, 2005-10-01 at 00:07 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Prompted by #289245, I think it might be a good idea to just remove all
> those sun-j2sdk1.4debian packages etc. I can't really see any good
> reason to have them, they have a circular depends with their generated
> counterpart, duplicate the provides from the generated counterpart, and
> if their intention is to track new upstream versions, well, that doesn't
> work since they don't have a versioned dependency.
>
> Instead, I plan to either introduce a tracker package that will alert
> you if one of your generated packages you installed becomes outdated...
> or implement this feature in java-package itself.
>
> Any thoughts? Objections? Thinks I didn't think of?
Indeed, it seems more sane to have this scattered functionality
integrated into one, but working package.
Go on.
Grzegorz B. Prokopski
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