Le 31/10/2022 à 19:54, Thorsten Glaser a écrit :
No, we really should not: the various JDKs also only provide java<n>-runtime and this dependency is specifically meant to also make it possible for software to use a JRE *other* than the default (the dependency reads like default-jre (>= x) | javaX-runtime by design/for a reason).
That should also be possible with the versioned virtual package:
default-jre (>= 2:1.n) | java-runtime (>= n)
Given how they stretch across versions and how many releases are supportable (ELTS from jessie on, *buntu from trusty on) I will argue that if and only if the openjdk-X source packages also start providing these _now_, that we can start switching to the versioned java-runtime provide in 2030, maybe later.
I agree the sooner the openjdk-<n> packages provide java-runtime (= n) the better. But I don't see the need to wait a decade before using the versioned java-runtime dependency in the packaged applications, what issue do you foresee?
Emmanuel Bourg