Hi Miguel,
Miguel Landaeta wrote:
severity 519235 wishlist
thanks
Hi,
This is not a "important" bug.
You can check this: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
This bug probably has "minor" or "wishlist" severity.
I do not fully agree: pdfsam doesn't follow the Java Policy, which
states in 2.3. Java programs that "Programs must depend on
java-virtual-machine and the needed runtime environment (java1-runtime
and/or java2-runtime)." This together with the sentence about virtual
machines stating that "Java virtual machines must provide
java-virtual-machine and depend on java-common. They can also provide
the runtime environment that the package contains (java1-runtime and/or
java2-runtime). If it does not provide the files itself it must depend
on the needed runtime environment." means that programs must depend on
<specific vm> | java-virtual-machine and on <specific runtime> |
javaN-runtime (the fact that most jre provide both at once is IMHO a
weakness of the policy, but we don't want to redo the world here).
Given the fact that the Java Policy is only a "proposal" (since how many
years?), one could discuss if it makes it a policy breach. I let you
decide :-)
Regards,
PD: also due to license issues, if this package depends on sun-java5-jre,
then it can not be in Debian main so it would not be available to many
Debian users who don't include contrib and non-free in /etc/apt/sources.list.
Again, I do not agree, I think it would be perfectly allowed and user
friendly to have alternatives: openjdk-6-jre | sun-java6-jre |
sun-java5-jre | java2-runtime
Eric
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