brian m. carlson wrote:
Package: java-common
Version: 0.33
Severity: normal
The Debian Java Policy, which is present in this package, states (§2.3):
Programs must depend on java-virtual-machine and the needed runtime
environment (java1-runtime and/or java2-runtime).
(Similar text is present in §2.1 and §2.2.)
This is problematic, because this pulls in a huge number of dependencies
that are unneeded for packages that run headless. For openjdk-6, which
is the default runtime on amd64, this involves the installation of the
entirety of GTK and its associated libraries, which are not needed on
machines that have neither a monitor nor an X server, such as servers.
Please fix the policy so that it does not mandate the installation of a
full JRE when a headless JRE would suffice. This is priority normal
because it requires every Java program or library to depend on lots of
code that has no place on a server.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
java-common depends on no packages.
java-common recommends no packages.
Versions of packages java-common suggests:
ii default-jre 1.6-33 Standard Java or Java compatible
R
ii equivs2.0.7-0.1 Circumvent Debian package
dependen
-- no debconf information
Hi Brian
We are working on updating the policy to better fit the current times.
If you look at packages such libgnujmi-java [1], we are already
extending the interpretation of this particularly cause to allow the
headless versions.
If you are interested, you can see a draft of the coming policy here[2].
Though there will be changes in that draft based on this feedback [3].
~Niels
[1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libgnujmi-java
[2] http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s072425/debian/policy/
[3]
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg698708.html
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