Re: Re: best Depends: line for an app that needs Java 5 but prefers Java 6
Marcus Better wrote:
> (Please don't CC me, I am subscribed to the list.)
(sorry. i'm not, which is why it always looks like i'm starting a new
thread, for which i also apologize.)
> Elliott Hughes wrote:
> > the application will be better with Java 6, so i'd really like
> > to Depends: it, but i don't want to shut out people on systems
that have
> > an available sun-java5-jre but no sun-java6-jre.
>
> Why not? sun-java6-jre is available in non-free, just like sun-
java5-jre.
> Just depend on it if you need it.
but only in testing and unstable, according to packages.debian.org.
so someone running stable Debian 4 or Debian 3 wouldn't be able to
install.
looking at packages.ubuntu.com, though, there it's available in
dapper-backports and edgy-backports, (6.06LTS and 6.10), though a web
search suggests that they're old-style packages made from Sun's .bin
files, rather than the shiny new ones we have these days.
plus in each case, the user then needs to have added the non-free
repositories before they can install.
> Or you could Recommed sun-java6-jre.
but it requires a pretty savvy user to actually follow the advice. i
guess i'm looking for the opposite situation, where the user who has
no reason to stick to Java 5 gets Java 6, but the savvy user who
wants to stick with Java 5, or any user who doesn't have Java 6 in
one of their apt sources, gets Java 5.
i think you're telling me, as i'd feared, that it isn't really
possible to do what i want to do. if that's the case, i think i'll
keep waiting -- at least until sun-java?-jre is in Ubuntu's main --
and then "Depends:" sun-java6-jre.
--elliott
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