On 25 August 2017 at 15:32, Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@tarent.de> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Carnë Draug wrote: > >> dependent on one *and* the other. That is, that it should have >> something like this line: >> >> Depends: default-jre, java6-runtime > > No, that’s definitely wrong. The whole idea is that > ① you don’t need default-jre but can use a different one that > also provides java6-runtime > ② you can’t Depends just on a virtual package with no real > alternative (which must be the first, for a while, for buildds)
Ok. I looked into some packages and see now that they are not actually dependent on both. The policy says "and" but it means that both should be listed on a list of alternative dependencies. That's not really clear but I guess that if it said "or" it could mean that only of those dependencies need to be listed as dependencies. I rewrote that paragraph of the policy in the hopes to make it clear and also explain the reasoning for the alternative [1]. Could someone please review it? Thank you Carnë [1] https://github.com/carandraug/debian-java-policy/commit/bf4eaed67f993c2af7be8fe43f06a4ec7c13ef93
