Bug#943723: texlive-extra-utils: JRE is not a dependency even though some programs (e.g. arara) need it

[Hilmar Preuße]

Control: forcemerge 952537 -1

Am 28.10.2019 um 16:29 teilte Aras Ergus mit:

Hi Aras,



Hilmar

this issue is similar to #952537, which has been solved a while ago. I'll try a forcemerge.

If texlive-extra-utils is installed on a system which doesn't have
a Java runtime environment, some programs in it don't work, e.g.

arara --version

yields

/usr/bin/arara: line 9: java: command not found

This affects at least one other program, namely texosquery.

Installing a JRE (e.g. the package default-jre-headless) solves
this issue.

Is it intentional that no JRE is listed as a dependency, a
recommended package or a suggested package?

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