Bug#1000405: Please accept other JRE versions besides the default one

[tony mancill]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 06:14:16PM +0100, Olivier Cailloux wrote:
> Please rather recommend “java-runtime-headless” if libbatik-java also
> works with java 8, or otherwise, consider some appropriate means to
> recommend any headless jre from 11 onwards.

One other comment (and a note of caution) is that the java-runtime and
java-runtime-headless virtual packages are provided by JRE runtimes
older than Java 8.  For examples, see openjdk-7 [1] and openjdk-6 [2].
I don't know how many of those older JVMs are still around, but strictly
speaking, we should use javaX-runtime[-headless], where X is the greater
of the minimum necessary runtime version and the compilation target
version.

Cheers,
tony

[1] https://snapshot.debian.org/package/openjdk-7/7u261-2.6.22-1~deb8u1/
[2] https://snapshot.debian.org/package/openjdk-6/6b41-1.13.13-1/
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