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Bug#551300: marked as done (java-common: policy mandates java?-runtime even for headless packages)

Your message dated Sat, 17 Aug 2013 20:55:00 +0200
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and subject line java-common: policy mandates java?-runtime even for headless packages
has caused the Debian Bug report #551300,
regarding java-common: policy mandates java?-runtime even for headless packages
to be marked as done.

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Package: java-common
Version: 0.33
Severity: normal

The Debian Java Policy, which is present in this package, states (§2.3):

  Programs must depend on java-virtual-machine and the needed runtime
  environment (java1-runtime and/or java2-runtime).

(Similar text is present in §2.1 and §2.2.)

This is problematic, because this pulls in a huge number of dependencies
that are unneeded for packages that run headless.  For openjdk-6, which
is the default runtime on amd64, this involves the installation of the
entirety of GTK and its associated libraries, which are not needed on
machines that have neither a monitor nor an X server, such as servers.

Please fix the policy so that it does not mandate the installation of a
full JRE when a headless JRE would suffice.  This is priority normal
because it requires every Java program or library to depend on lots of
code that has no place on a server.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

java-common depends on no packages.

java-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages java-common suggests:
ii  default-jre                   1.6-33     Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii  equivs                        2.0.7-0.1  Circumvent Debian package dependen

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Hi,

Sylvestre has updated / cleaned up the policy which now say :

  Programs must depend on the needed runtime environment
  (default-jre and/or default-jre-headless if need a GUI or not).  

So this issue could be closed.

Regards,
--
Damien

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