On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:20:55PM -0500, Jacob Robert Wilkins wrote: > Pardon my igornance if this is a dumb question, the java policy and > packaging in Debian seems to be an overcomplicated beast, and I'm not > sure why certian things are done as they are.... > > I have java-virtual-machine-dummy and java-compiler-dummy installed. > > And I have Sun's JDK living out in /usr/local. > > This *should* be everything I need, I should be able to get rid of > kaffe. But.... > > racerx:~# dpkg --purge kaffe > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of kaffe: > jython depends on kaffe | java-runtime | java1-runtime | java2-runtime; > > Is this a problem with the way jython is packaged? Or should > java-virtual-machine-dummy also provide java-runtime? > > Or, should there also be a seperate java-runtime-dummy package?
There is already such a package. I do not know how far it has reached though... *checking* It seems to have been stucked in incoming since 14:th november... Quite a long time... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/org/ftp.debian.org/incoming$ ls -l *java* -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 613 Nov 14 03:12 java-common-non-free_0.1.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 1786 Nov 14 03:12 java-common-non-free_0.1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 1175 Nov 14 03:12 java-common-non-free_0.1_i386.changes -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 708 Nov 14 03:17 java-common_0.8.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 14001 Nov 14 03:18 java-common_0.8.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 105184 Nov 14 03:17 java-common_0.8_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 2076 Nov 14 03:18 java-common_0.8_i386.changes -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 4450 Nov 14 03:17 java-compiler-dummy_0.8_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 4256 Nov 14 03:17 java-virtual-machine-dummy_0.8_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 2424 Nov 14 03:17 java1-runtime-dummy_0.8_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 1522 Nov 14 03:12 java2-compiler-dummy_0.1_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 opal Debian 1546 Nov 14 03:12 java2-runtime-dummy_0.1_all.deb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/org/ftp.debian.org/incoming$ > > Or, am I getting it all wrong? No. Regards, // Ola > Thanks, > jrw > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Björnkärrsgatan 5 A.11 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 584 36 LINKÖPING | | +46 (0)13-17 69 83 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
