runtime dependency

Arnaud Vandyck avdyk@debian.org
Tue Mar 22 05:32:02 2005


Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:52:18 +0100, 
Wolfgang Baer <WBaer@gmx.de> wrote: 

> But how would you then differentiate free and non-free runtimes ?
> To depend on j2re1.4 | j2re1.5 is not a real solution as sometime
> j2re1.6 will come out. I think we will need a virtual package which
> indicates that a non-free runtime is needed.
>
> I think a switch post sarge to free-java-runtime and
> non-free-java-runtime would be the less confusing scheme.

I was thinking about the same virtual packages:

o java-free-runtime
o java-non-free-runtime

or something like that.

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