Bug#858655: Please move Java dependencies to libreoffice-java-common
On Tue, 2017 Mar 28 09:35+0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> >
> > 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.
That command already pulls in the Java stuff, including lo-java-common, because the metapackage Recommends: packages that require Java (like
lo-report-builder).
You already solved this problem without Depends: lo-java-common.
> Trust me, we have been there various times and thus why a default LO
> install *does* install it.
It's not that I don't trust you, it is that this "solution" does not
help the problem you are describing.
If you try an experimental build without that dependency,
"apt-get install libreoffice" will install exactly the same set of
packages as now.
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