Bug#849419: libopenjfx-java: Description should clarify libopenjfx-java is not automatically on classpath without pkg openjfx

[George Bateman]

Package: libopenjfx-java
Version: 8u111-b14-1
Severity: wishlist

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Dear Maintainer,

An Ant build script for a Java package intended to be used with Oracle
Java would not build, as it could not find the openjfx library. I had to
modify the Ant script to add /usr/share/java/openjfx/jre/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar
to its classpath manually, even though this would not have been necessary
if I'd been using Oracle Java.

By experimentation I found out that the package openjfx had to be installed
in addition to libopenjfx-java for the script to automatically be able
to use the library without adding it to the classpath manually, but it
should have been made clear on both packages' description pages that
this was the case.

Many thanks,

George Bateman.


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libopenjfx-java depends on:
ii  libopenjfx-jni  8u111-b14-1

libopenjfx-java recommends no packages.

libopenjfx-java suggests no packages.

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