On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:53:39AM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>       Hope all is well!
> 
>       Well, it seems after all the discussion about our java2 virtual
>       packages, etc, the java2-*-dummy packages were rejected from the
>       archive:
> 
>       http://incoming.debian.org/REJECT/java-common_0.8_i386.reason

The were rejected because there are no free java2 programs.

>       along with the latest java-common. Since j2sdk/j2re is also not yet
>       installed into the archive (is this going to happen ?) we are
>       currently in a bind with our recent java1/2 policy plans.
> 
>       What happens now ? According to the URL above, the dummy
>       packages can't be installed into 'main' because they can only be
>       satisfied by non-free packages - can we install the dummy
>       packages into non-free then ? or is there a more general problem
>       there ?

They will go to contrib.

I have one question to you all though.

Is the dummy packages needed at all?
The ftp-master did not really like them and I can understand him.

Do we want it to be there?

If the answer is yes I'll create a java-common-contrib that
creates the java2-runtime-dummy package.

Regards,

// Ola

>       (Ben, do your scripts totally alleviate these problems ?)
> 
>       Cheers,
> 
>       Marcus
> 
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