Bug#858655: Please move Java dependencies to libreoffice-java-common
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 03:28:31AM -0400, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Tue, 2017 Mar 28 08:36+0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > >
> > > > That installation would fail with a non clear message if the Java
> > > > support is not there. -> Bad.
> > > >
> > > > We had that "fun" in the past...
> > >
> > > So, there are Java-based LibreOffice extension packages that do not
> > > properly declare their Java dependencies?
> >
> > I didn't say "packages"? Extensions from the wild, from upstream, from
> > LOs extension website _in oxt format_.
>
> If LibreOffice is installed without Java runtime support, then how is
> the failed installation of Java-based third-party extensions a
> problem? That is exactly what should happen.
But people out there don't know what their extension is written in and
(often) don't know about java-common or so. Thus the metapackage gets it in
because newbies out there just do apt-get install libreoffice.
Trust me, we have been there various times and thus why a default LO install
*does* install it. This won't be changed.
Regards,
Rene
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