Bug#503815: missing alternate dependency on java-runtime6{, -headless}

Emmanuel Bourg ebourg at apache.org
Fri Feb 13 22:14:29 UTC 2015


On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:37:35 +0000 Matthew Johnson <mjj29 at debian.org> wrote:

> So? it depends on openjdk-6-jre. That's all you need to run it, it
> installs in and explicitly uses it to run it, whatever your alternatives
> setting. I've not tested cacao and it's not supported. I use some fairly
> complicated reflection stuff which has not been working in the past in
> any of the non-sun VMs even when they theoretically support that version
> of the class format.

A dependency on java6-runtime would also allow Oracle JRE packages
created by java-package to use dbus-java, and they are of course
compatible with OpenJDK. So I think this change is worth doing.

Emmanuel Bourg



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