Re: RFS: icu4j-4.2

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Scott Howard <showard314@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
>>  * Removed dependencies on JREs - per the Java Policy this is no
>>    longer required.
>
> Do we not need to depend on default-jre-headless for libraries? Or is
> it optional? I don't see anything in the policy saying that it was
> required to - so when is it good to include the dependency? Thank you.

  Earlier policy (and a very outdated one, but that was reworked only
recently) mandated that libraries should depend on an appropriate java
runtime.

  If my memory serves me right, only *programs* should depend on the
java runtime they need to run, but not libraries.

  Cheers,

      Vincent