Bug#639952: libaccess-bridge-java: Please add openjdk-7-jre as an alternative dependency

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:58:04AM +0200, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote:
> Le jeudi 01 septembre 2011 01:28:53, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> > > FYI, I'm already working on it so it will be fixed soon.
> > 
> > there's not much to do, simply adding a "| openjdk-7-jre" to the
> > dependency is enough.
> 
> Have you tested Java Access Bridge with openjdk-7 ?

No, but see below:

> > (And if there would be any possible problems with that, then the
> >  unversioned dependency on default-jre would already be a serious bug.)
> 
> Yes, that's a known problem of default-jre being different between archs (ie.  
> hurd or kfreebsd) :/

That is not the problem I had in mind.

At some point in the future default-jre will depend on openjdk-7-jre.

If that might be a problem, then the unversioned dependency on 
default-jre is already bug.

But even versioning the dependency on default-jre wouldn't solve
all problems:
Even if you enforce that a Java 6 JRE is installed, you have no
influence on what JRE is running your code since several JRE's
can be installed in parallel.

> Cheers,

cu
Adrian

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