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

[James Andrewartha]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Andreas Putzo wrote:

> On Aug 28  22:06, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > How about a openjdk-6-jre | sun-java6-jre dependency then?
> 
> My understanding is that this is not allowed by policy 2.2.1
> 
> | In addition, the packages in main  must not require a package outside of main
> | for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare
> | a "Depends", "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package)
> 
> This is a bit vague though since a dependency on openjdk-6-jre |
> sun-java6-jre does not *require* a package outside of main to run josm.
> But there are already some packages in the archive that do exactly that.
> I will ask for clarificaton/some more opinions and presumably adjust the
> dependencies.

Oh, of course - I forgot about that part of policy. For the moment I'll 
equivs it up then.

Thanks,

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