Bug#771537: freeplane: should relax to depend on default-jre | java-runtime

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Tony,

Quoting tony mancill (2014-11-30 18:39:13)
> On 11/30/2014 06:57 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Freeplane package depends on default-jre.  That means I am forced to 
>> install the default java, even if apparently (according to 
>> <http://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting>) SUN JRE 
>> 1.6 or newer (which I guess corresponds to virtual package 
>> "java-runtime") is adequate.

> Thanks for the bug report.  We get enough of these that it's probably 
> worth adding a lintian check to ensure that packages that declare a 
> dependency on a JRE also include an alternative on a virtual 
> equivalent (although this is really only feasible starting with 
> java6).

Thanks for the swift response!

Yeah, I realized after filing this that it is probably a general issue: 
several reverse dependencies of freeplane also depend only on 
default-jre :-P


 - Jonas

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