Re: How to _best_ depend on non-free Java packages?

[Eric Lavarde <deb@zorglub.s.bawue.de>]

Hi,

thanks for the help, some more questions on top of these ones:
- I browsed a bit with apt-cache and came to the conclusion that no 
(free) package in Debian is providing java2-runtime. I am correct?
- I have the feeling that 'java2-runtime' is too coarse as a virtual 
package: I know too many programs that work only on one or two of 
j2re1.3, j2re1.4 or j2re1.5. Wouldn't it be better to have these 3 names 
as virtual packages? Do you allow me to place a bug on the Java police / 
java-common or do you think it won't anyway be considered?

Thanks, Eric

Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:40:33PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote:
>
> 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.

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