Hi On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:11:16PM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote: > W li?cie z czw, 08-08-2002, godz. 13:51, Grzegorz Prokopski pisze: > > W li?cie z czw, 08-08-2002, godz. 11:21, Thomas J. Zeeman pisze: > > > > I'm sure there used to be a dummy java package so that you could install > > > > packages that depended on a jre package, but you supplied your own? > > > Yup, they used to exist. They've been pulled 'cause ftp-masters don't > > > seem to like dummy-packages. See > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2002/debian-java-200202/msg00002.html > > > for more on this.
This is the main problem. I was trying to argue with them but they did never respond so in order to get things going I removed that kind of stuff from java-common. > > > You can always build your own dummy with the equivs package. True. > > So that we weren't forced to reinvent the wheel all the time - I'd > > suggest having the set of control files (for equivs) for those dummy > > packages included in java-common. Sure. File a bug to java-common. Patches are appriciated. > > I am offering myself to prepare them if java-common maintainer thinks > > too that this would be good. (Because of small size it wouldn't make > > much sense to have separate java-common-dummies package just with them). Sure. > Control files and builded debs are available at: > http://www.home.sente.pl/greg/dummy-packages/ > compressed in one file > http://www.home.sente.pl/greg/dummy-packages/dummy-packages.tgz > > Those 5 debs are together only 11k in size, so we could almost as well > just include _them_ in java-common ;-) not the *.control files Well I do not really like the idea of including .debs in a deb file. :) > If those *.control files go into java-common, then we should have > at least Suggests: equivs in java-common. True. Please file a bug (wishlist) to java-common if you like that idea. Regards, // Ola > Regards > > Grzegorz B. Prokopski > > PS: Now I am gonna finally fix all the dependencies of my java packages > ;-) :) > > -- --------------------- 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 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
