Bug#900356: jabref: JabRef does no longer start with Java8

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 09:59:55 -0700, tony mancill wrote:

> > Looking at the recent evolution of debian/control, I note that
> > there's no default-jre or openjdk-* in Depends any more.
> > 
> > The recent changes were:
> > "default-jre (>= 2:1.8) | java8-runtime" → "openjdk-8-jre" → ""
> > 
> > I guess, adding something like
> > "default-jre (>= 2:1.9) | java9-runtime"
> > should help (java9-runtime is provided by default-jre (2:1.10-65),
> > default-jre (2:1.10-66), openjdk-10-jre (10.0.1+10-4), openjdk-11-jre
> > (11~13-2), openjdk-11-jre (11~15-1), openjdk-9-jre (9.0.4+12-4)).
> > 
> > Tony, what do you think?
> I'm not sure about requiring java9-runtime given that our users
> obviously run JREs other than the default in the current distribution.

Good point.
(Although technicall any java runtime is required I guess.)

> What I think we should do is try to detect if the jabref-wrapper is
> being invoked with java8 and clear the options required for the java9
> workaround.
> If that sounds acceptable, I'll work on that.  (I should have done
> something like that in the first place.)

Thanks, that was indeed my other idea :)
  

Cheers,
gregor

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