Bug#354026: java-package: generated package should provide java1-runtime

[Barry Hawkins]

severity 354026 normal
retitle 354026 Debian Java Policy needs to be updated regarding java*-runtime usage
reassign 354026 java-common 
stop

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:36:40AM +0700, William S wrote:
[...]
> The packages generated by the make-jpkg tool do not provide the
> virtual package java1-runtime. However, several packages depend
> on java1-runtime only (and not java-runtime or java2-runtime).
[...]
Thanks for your use of Debian and java-package as well as your
time in filing this bug report.  The Debian Java Packaging Project
has had an ongoing discussion about this issue, most recently on
debian-java[0].  Neither java1-runtime nor java2-runtime are 
relevant anymore; our current concensus is that java-runtime 
should be used, possibly in conjunction with a classpath-runtime
virtual package to account for differences between non-free JREs
and the free runtimes for Java(TM).
[...] 
> Some examples from my sarge packages list:
> 
> jflex 1.3.5-7
> libdom1-java 0.19990107-6
> libjdepend-java 2.9-1
> libjzlib-java 1.0.5-1.1
[...]
There are currently 115 packages that depend on java1-runtime in
unstable.  Since sarge is frozen and released, package version in
it are not subject to change.
[...]
> I cannot find any information on the Debian Java FAQ, but the
> Debian policy for Java states that the preferred virtual package
> name is java1-runtime. The discussion on the mailing list
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2005/04/msg00032.html)
> said that it will soon be fixed in experimental but the newest
> version on the mirrors is 0.27 and the packages it generates
> still do not provide java1-runtime.
[...]
[0] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2006/02/msg00006.html

Regards,
-- 
Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
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Registered Linux User #368650
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