Re: netbeans java dependencies Java

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-09-23 08:40, Joachim Zobel wrote:
> Hi.
> 

Hi,

> To to create a patch that works around
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720684
> I want to modify the netbeans dependencies in a way that says
> "Can depend on any java 6 or java 7, but not openjdk 6. "
> Can I express this with debian dependencies?
> 
> Looking at the control file it seems that java dependencies come from a
> variable ${Depends:java}. This is to have a central location to modify
> the java dependencies, I think. Where is that central location?
> 
> Thx,
> Joachim
> 
> 

I am not aware of any "Depends:java" variable, so it might be a "local"
thing to the package (e.g. d/rules sets it by writing to
debian/$pkg.substvars)

But if you meant "java:Depends" then that comes from jh_depends
(javahelper).

~Niels