Re: [Jabref-users] why jabref depends on openjdk-6-jre on Debian system?

[Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen@gmail.com>]

Dear Marcelo,

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Marcelo Laia <marcelolaia@gmail.com> wrote:
> marcelo@laia:~$ sudo aptitude show jabref
> Pacote: jabref
> Depends on: openjdk-6-jre, antlr, antlr3, libjgoodies-looks-java,
>            libjgoodies-forms-java, libspin-java, libglazedlists-java,
>            libmicroba-java, libpdfbox-java, libjempbox-java (>= 0.2.0),
>            java-wrappers (>= 0.1.6), libmysql-java, libcommons-logging-java,
>            libjpf-java, libjpfcodegen-java, velocity (>= 1.5)

traditionally, dependencies were defined like (see Debian Java Policy):

java2-runtime | openjdk-6-jre

so that aptitude (or dpkg) would be happy if you already had a Java
.deb installed providing java2-runtime.

Now, that obviously does not work if you installed a non-deb version
of Java, e.g. in /usr/local, but I am also not sure why the
java2-runtime alternative is missing... I have been out of the Debian
Java loop for quite a long time now, and cc-ed the list, hoping they
can provide further information.

Kind regards,

Egon Willighagen

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