Re: An interesting dependancy problem
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:03:50PM -0400, Brian White wrote:
> It is policy that package that depend on non-free packages must go into
> contrib. However, what if a package depends on a virtual package that
> is only provided by packages outside of "main"?
>
> This came up in Bug#16652 where "javalex" depends upon "java-virtual-machine"
> but that virtual package is only provided by "kaffe" which is in contrib.
The java virtual package names don't seem to be used much. javalex
depends on java-virtual-machine, guavac (mine) suggests it,
and kaffe provides it.
But libpgjava and biss-awt both suggest jdk1.1-runtime instead. I couldn't
actually find jdk1.1-runtime anywhere to see if it provides
java-virtual-machine, shouldn't it be in non-free/devel?
However, the java runtime package obviously didn't provide that package
when I filed #16652 else I would have mentioned it (it still wouldn't
solve javalex's problem though).
Hamish
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