>You are right, dbus-java-bin should depend on "default-jre | java6-runtime | java7-runtime" instead of "openjdk-7-jre | openjdk-6-jre".
Good to know. :) >This is an error in the policy, thank you for spotting it. Out of curiosity, why does the policy not require that libraries depend on Java? The only reason I can think of is if programs create/embed their own JVM, so one on the system wouldn't be needed(I know of no programs that do this). -Robert Middleton On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > Le 14/07/2014 16:42, Robert Middleton a écrit : > > > That implies to me that the dbus-java-bin depending on openjdk-7-jre is > > incorrect, and it should actually depend on default-jre. Is it > > intentional that it depends on openjdk? > > You are right, dbus-java-bin should depend on "default-jre | > java6-runtime | java7-runtime" instead of "openjdk-7-jre | openjdk-6-jre". > > > > Similar question too: the previously quoted snippet from the Debian > > policy manual indicates that any Java library should depend on > > default-jre, whereas out of the half-dozen libraries that I clicked on > > randomly( > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=commons&searchon=names&suite=testing§ion=all > ), > > only one of them had a dependency on default-jre, so I'm wondering if > > that's intentional? > > This is an error in the policy, thank you for spotting it. Java programs > must depend on the required runtime, but not the libraries (and Lintian > will complain about it [1]). > > Emmanuel Bourg > > [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/needless-dependency-on-jre.html > >
