"Onkar Shinde" <onkarshi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Scott Howard <showard...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Augusto Brito <m...@wsbp.eu> wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> The librxtx-java package lists java-runtime as a dependency, which in >>> turn brings along a lot of packages. Would it be reasonable if it >>> depended only on the java-runtime-headless? This new dependency could >>> reduce a lot of unused packages when installed on a server machine as is >>> my case. >> >> Thanks for pointing this out. This package has just been adopted by >> the Debian Java Packaging team, and a new version has just been >> uploaded to debian and maverick [1]. This new version does not depend >> on java-runtime. It actually does not depend on any java (which is a >> bug). I agree that it should at least depend on: default-jre-headless. > >No, it is not a bug. It was decided by Debian Java team that library >packages should not depend on runtime unless the package needs a >specific version of runtime (1.5 or 1.6). Do I understand correctly that you are saying the package depends on non-essential functionality, but doesn't declare that dependency and it's somehow OK? Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
