Bug#288619: Shouldn't 1.5 provide 1.4 and 1.4 provide 1.3?

[Arnaud Vandyck]

Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:36:20 -0600, 
Jerry Haltom <jhaltom@feedbackplusinc.com> wrote: 

> I did notice one potential problem. A lot of packages hardcode checks
> for the /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun, and depend on j2sdk1.4. If 1.5 provides
> 1.4, but doesn't provide the same directory, then these packages will
> break. I'd say the VM detection should be much better for these
> packages, but I don't know how to do that right now. ;)

This is a huge java problem, the JAVA_HOME envvar!

,----[ /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt ]
| 9.9. Environment variables
| --------------------------
| 
|      A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable
|      defaults.
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;-)

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