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

[Jerry Haltom]

Probably better conversation for the list... but haven't other distros
solved this? Can't we just Steal Their Scripts?

I heard Gentoo's was pretty decent.

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 22:19 +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> 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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Jerry Haltom <wasabi@larvalstage.net>