Bug#754876: Virtual packages for the new Java runtimes

[Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>]

Le 15/07/2014 16:22, Bill Allombert a écrit :

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

Hi Bill,

Here is the definition of these packages:

 java5-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 5
 java6-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 6
 java7-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 7
 java8-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 8
 java9-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 9
 java5-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
version 5
 java6-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
version 6
 java7-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
version 7
 java8-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
version 8
 java9-runtime-headless  a non graphical Java runtime environment, Java
version 9


java1-runtime and java2-runtime are still provided by gcj-jre and
openjdk-{6,7,8} but they are obsolete. We remove them from the
dependencies as we update the packages.

java9-runtime isn't used yet but is likely to appear in Jessie+1,
feel free to remove it if you prefer keeping only the packages currently
used.