Re: How to _best_ depend on non-free Java packages?
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:40:33PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> What is the "official" opinion of the Java maintainers on what the
> proper Depends should be in such a situation (even if it might hurt you
> to have an opinion on non-free software :> )?
I don't know how authorite I can speak here, but I've done the recent
two uploads of java-package.
I suggest if you require a java2 runtime to depend on java2-runtime.
Since you should generally not depend on a virtual package alone, I
suggest depending on:
sun-j2re1.5 | java2-runtime (or blackdown- if that works too).
If not all java2-runtimes will do, you can exchange java2-runtime for
either 'j2re1.5' if you require 1.5, or 'j2re1.4 | j2re1.5' if 1.4 will
also do.
If there is in any way a problem with this, for example, a certain
package or so doesn't work well this way, please let us know, or file a
bug on the appropriate package.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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