Re: Bug#754876: Virtual packages for the new Java runtimes

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:57:18PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 15/07/2014 16:22, Bill Allombert a écrit :
> 
> > Could you please write the definition for each of them, and determine whether
> > java1-runtime and java2-runtime should be kept ?
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> Here is the definition of these packages:
> 
>  java5-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 5
>  java6-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 6
>  java7-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 7
>  java8-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 8
>  java9-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 9
>  java5-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
> version 5
>  java6-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
> version 6
>  java7-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
> version 7
>  java8-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
> version 8
>  java9-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
> version 9
> 
> java1-runtime and java2-runtime are still provided by gcj-jre and
> openjdk-{6,7,8} but they are obsolete. We remove them from the
> dependencies as we update the packages.
> 
> java9-runtime isn't used yet but is likely to appear in Jessie+1,
> feel free to remove it if you prefer keeping only the packages currently
> used.

Fine! Could you get someone from the Java team double check and second this ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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