Bug#519235: pdfsam: requires openjdk-6-jre, but works with sun-6-jre
Hi, I read the descriptions of severities and assumed that dowloading and installing over 200 MB of unnecessary software has major effect on the usability, but please excuse me if I was wrong. I don't want the package to depend on sun-jre, but on the virtual java-virtual-machine or so. Best regards TN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#519235: pdfsam: requires openjdk-6-jre, but works with sun-6-jre
Hi, Miguel Landaeta wrote: 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 I would not prefer to depend explicitly on sun-java?-jre (even if this is optional). I would prefer this package just depends on openjdk-6-jre | java2-runtime. I think that's perfectly valid, it's just _my_ way to say that my package won't work with a classpath based runtime. Eric -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort of the Incompetent. Gwalt jest ostatnem schronieniem niekompetencji. La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence. ~ Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#519235: pdfsam: requires openjdk-6-jre, but works with sun-6-jre
Package: pdfsam Severity: important I am using the Sun JDK/JRE and don't want to install OpenJDK to use pdfsam. Pdfsam works with Sun Java. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#519235: pdfsam: requires openjdk-6-jre, but works with sun-6-jre
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
