Bug#345338: libservlet2.4-java: Dependency violates Debian Java Policy

Fri Dec 30 18:15:30 UTC 2005

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:52:02PM +0100, Bernardo Dal Seno wrote:
> Package: libservlet2.4-java
> Severity: serious
> Justification: java 2.4
> 
> 
> >From the Debian Java Policy (section 2.4):
> 
> > Java libraries must depend on the needed runtime environment
> > (java1-runtime and/or java2-runtime)
> 
> libservlet2.4-java depends on java-runtime instead, and java-runtime is 
> not provided by dummy packages java1-runtime-dummy and 
> java2-runtime-dummy, nor are JVMs required to provide java-runtime.
> 
> Please depend on java1-runtime or java2-runtime.

This is going to change soon as the virtual packages java1-runtime and
java2-runtime are more or less nonsense as they dont match reality
really well.

Cheers,
Michael
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