On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 12:58:52AM +0100, Marco Gamberoni wrote: > icedtea-netx can be used with any JRE. > Java Network Launch Programs (jnlp) declare a specific version of JRE in the > jnlp file, and often misbehave if another version is used. > javaws prints a warning on stdout if the chosen JRE is not the one declared > in the jnlp file, but it easy to miss it. > > In my case, I use a jnlp application once a year for tax filings, supplied by > Italian tax authority Agenzia delle Entrate, via jnlp technology. It works > correctly only with openjdk-8-jre, and being provisioned via jnlp, needs > javaws from icedtea-netx. > So, due to icedtea-netx dependency on default-jre I end up with 2 JRE > installed: 8 and (currently) 11. > The default JRE ends up being 11, so I have to configure icedea-netx to use > the 8, and cannot remove 11. > This is too much hassle and bloat to pay taxes :o) > > I would like to see this wishlist bug closed this way: > - icedtea-web should depend on java-runtime, and suggest default-jre > - openjdk-8-jre should provide java-runtime (it provides only versioned > ones: java2-runtime, java5-runtime, java6-runtime, java7-runtime, > java8-runtime) > This would make it easy to have only openjdk-8-jre and icedtea-netx > installed, without defaul-jre and its dependencies. > As things stand, one must resort to other more complex options, like equivs > to circumvent package dependencies, or simply tolerate the bloat. > > Regards > > Marco Gamberoni
Hello Marco, I agree about the hard dependency on default-jre. That's the reason that the javaX-runtime virtual dependencies were created. However, I'm not sure about creating a new java-runtime dependency, since I think that we're going to continue to have situations where we have to differentiate between JRE runtimes. Since the default-jre going back to oldstable provides java8-runtime, would it be okay to have icedtea-web depend on java8-runtime, which can be satisfied by default-jre for stretch and anything later? This should simplify your use case and continue to work until there is a default-jre that is for some reason unable to run older byte code. Cheers, tony
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