Bug#622396: wrong and harmful needless-dependency-on-jre
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:51:52PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Right, the repeated tag is a mistake on my account.
I don't really care about that one :)
> > Hmm.
> >
> > A package which sole purpose is to provide jars compiled to jar.sos for use with gcj
> > shouldn't depen on gcj? So that installing it would be a no-op and "thus rendering this
> > package useless". Actually I'd argue that a -gcj package not depending on gcj-jre (or
> > whatever else similar) is RC-buggy (serious). Therefore the severity, I consider this
> > warning harmful, as it surely will cause people to get rid of the dependency.
> >
>
> As far as I know openjdk-6 can also benefit from these -gcj packages.
> At least that is how I read this email from Matthias Klose[1]:
>
> """
> the [libX-gcj] packages do make sense for architectures which only come
> with the ZeroVM in OpenJDK, and no JIT.
> """
Why are they still called -gcj then?
Does openjdk really look in /usr/lib/gcj?
> If that is truly the case, I see no reason why people should be forced
> to have all of gcj just to have some optimized packages that also work
> with openjdk-6.
On a subset of architectures afaik. Most don't use ZeroVM TTBOMK. -gcj
without a dependency then would cause a problem im my POV on the other
architectures which don't use ZeroVM.
> By the way, could I convince you to have a look at #620829? If there is
Correct, it's help files. XML.:
rene@frodo:/tmp$ unzip /chroots/sid/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/wiki-publisher/help/de/help.jar
Archive: /chroots/sid/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/wiki-publisher/help/de/help.jar
inflating: com.sun.wiki-publisher/wiki.xhp
inflating: com.sun.wiki-publisher/wikiaccount.xhp
inflating: com.sun.wiki-publisher/wikiformats.xhp
inflating: com.sun.wiki-publisher/wikisend.xhp
inflating: com.sun.wiki-publisher/wikisettings.xhp
Grüße/Regards,
René
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