[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#496861: josm should depend on openjdk-6-jre | jamvm | java2-runtime

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Aug 28 14:06:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Andreas Putzo wrote:

> On Aug 28  11:33, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > The latest version of josm has a dependency only on openjdk-6-jre which
> > means it can't be used with sun-java6-jre. I don't really want two JREs,
> > and I need Sun Java for compatability reasons.
> 
> you can still use josm with Sun's Java if you set JAVA_HOME accordingly
> or run josm with 
>  JAVACMD= /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java josm
> 
> There are currently many packages that provide java2-runtime, and josm
> only works with few of them. That's why i prefer keeping the dependency
> on openjdk and switch back to a virtual dependency as soon as we either
> have better virtual packages for java runtimes or have the bugs fixed
> that prevents josm from running with other javas.

How about a openjdk-6-jre | sun-java6-jre dependency then?

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