On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Scott Howard <showard...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: >> * Removed dependencies on JREs - per the Java Policy this is no >> longer required. > > Do we not need to depend on default-jre-headless for libraries? Or is > it optional? I don't see anything in the policy saying that it was > required to - so when is it good to include the dependency? Thank you.
Earlier policy (and a very outdated one, but that was reworked only recently) mandated that libraries should depend on an appropriate java runtime. If my memory serves me right, only *programs* should depend on the java runtime they need to run, but not libraries. Cheers, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikq1qs4dbgdk74m1qoxndullczeuayhnk7hd...@mail.gmail.com