Bug#858655: Please move Java dependencies to libreoffice-java-common
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 07:00:22PM -0400, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> # apt-get -s install libreoffice default-jre- | grep '^Inst' | egrep 'jre|jdk|java'
> Inst libreoffice-java-common (1:5.2.5-2 Debian:testing [all])
>
> Hunh, that worked. The lo-java-common package went in, even though it's
> presumably useless without a Java runtime. So what about those
> aforementioned components that supposedly required Java?
>
> # apt-get -s install libreoffice default-jre- | grep '^Inst' | egrep 'nlpsolver|report-builder|wiki-publisher'
> Inst libreoffice-report-builder-bin (1:5.2.5-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
> Inst libreoffice-wiki-publisher (1.2.0+LibO5.2.5-2 Debian:testing [all])
>
> So nlpsolver didn't go in (reasonable), only the bin package of
> report-builder was installed (huh?), and wiki-publisher went in just
> fine (will that even work in light of its hard dep on lo-java-common?).
That is interesting, though. They are *extensions* to LO, though, whereas
-sdbc-hsqldb is a _core_ component. But yeah, probably they should depend
on default-jre etc, too - as -sdbc-hsqldb does.
But not -java-common, as outlined in my first reply.
Regards,
Rene
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