Bug#754876: Virtual packages for the new Java runtimes

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 02:51:18PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The list of virtual packages [1] contains only two packages for the Java
> runtimes (java1-runtime and java2-runtime), but new virtual packages
> have been in use since at least 2008 when sun-java and openjdk started
> to be packaged [2].
> 
> Could you please add the following packages to reflect the current
> practices of the Java Team?
> 
> java5-runtime, java5-runtime-headless,
> java6-runtime, java6-runtime-headless,
> java7-runtime, java7-runtime-headless,
> java8-runtime, java8-runtime-headless,
> java9-runtime, java9-runtime-headless

Hello Emmanuel,

Could you please write the definition for each of them, and determine whether
java1-runtime and java2-runtime should be kept ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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