Re: Default JRE and Java plugin

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 07.10.2015 12:28, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 07/10/2015 11:47, Matthias Klose a écrit :
>
> > Not moving/or renaming the iceded-plugin to java-defaults would need
> > rebuilds of the icedtea-web package on the version change. Not a big
> > deal, but that's why I don't like 3.
>
> I'm not sure to understand the rebuild issue. If we split
> src:icedtea-web, we'll have:
>
> - src:icedtea-web producing icedtea-7-plugin
> - src:icedtea-8-web producing icedtea-8-plugin
> - src:icedtea-9-web producing icedtea-9-plugin (in the future)
>
> With an intermediate package we would have this dependency chain:
>
>      default-jre -> default-java-plugin -> icedtea-8-plugin
>
> and with the solution 3 we would have:
>
>      default-jre -> icedtea-8-plugin

as a recommends or as a suggests.

> In both cases, a transition to Java 9 implies uploading
> src:icedtea-9-web first and then switching the dependency in
> src:java-common. Did I miss something?

when you remove icedtea-8-plugin, you cannot directly re-install it without 
relying on, or knowing the versioned name.