Jan Schulz wrote:
So what do you suggests as a alternative?
Stay with the
for i in $LIST_OF_ALL_KNOWN_JAVA_WHICH_WILL_WORK ; do
...
done
and having a Depends like this:
jsdk1.3 | jsdk1.4 |jsdk1.4-bd | j2sdk1.4-sun | kaffe (>..)|...
(sun, bd and ibm should be from mpkg-j2sdk) Just imagine
additional 1.5, 1.6 and so on...
You may have to do that. If you don't have a VM that has been
*tested* with the package you're trying to install, then you
don't know if you can satisfy the dependency.
For convenience, you can say (I don't know the appropriate syntax):
jdk version >= 1.2 | gcj version >= 3.3 | kaffe version >= ???
but that is no guarantee. A later version of JDK may add more
methods to an interface (Sun has been known to do this), and if
your package has a class that implements the interface, it will
break. Plus of course people do add bugs.
You can also "java-compatible-with-jdk1.3" but no Free JVM
are likely to satisfy such a constraint anytime soon.
(compilatible-with-jdk1.1 is getting close, though!)
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