Bug#738632: icedtea-netx: split javaws 6 & 7 to different packages

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Control: close -1

Since the version 1.7.1-1 icedtea-netx is no longer integrated with a
specific version of OpenJDK, so there is no point splitting the package
anymore.

Emmanuel Bourg


On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:48:37 +0100 Charles Malaheenee
<malaheenee at gmx.fr> wrote:
> Package: icedtea-netx
> Version: 1.4.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I suggest to split package to icedtea-6-netx and icedtea-7-netx (or similar) to
> avoid have 2 different versions of javaws on the user's machines. I use now
> openjdk-7, but until I run update-alternatives (yes, I don't use default-jre),
> javaws by default sets to version 6. On top of everything, why I must have
> unused version on my desktop?
> 
> Best regards,
> Malaheenee
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'),
> (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages icedtea-netx depends on:
> ii  icedtea-netx-common  1.4.2-1
> ii  openjdk-7-jre        7u51-2.4.5-2
> 
> icedtea-netx recommends no packages.
> 
> icedtea-netx suggests no packages.
> 
>