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Re: openjdk-6 and openjdk-7 multiarch installable



On 09/25/2011 08:54 PM, Torsten Werner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>>>> openjdk-6-jre-headless now doesn't use java-6-openjdk anymore. so with the
>>>>> appropriate conflicts, this symlink can be moved to default-jre-headless.
> 
> I do not think that this is a good solution. IMHO openjdk-6 should
> build a package with the generic symlink.

sure, just check it in.

> As an alternative: would it
> be possible to provide an almost generic symlink? Something like
> java-6-openjdk-32 or java-6-openjdk-64 depending on architecture?

no. doesn't make sense for armel/armhf, and creating almost generic symlinks for
almost all use cases is worse.

  Matthias


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