On 23.08.2017 20:11, Carnë Draug wrote: > Hi > > I was going through the pkg-java policy and found this [1]: > > Programs must depend on the needed runtime environment > (default-jre or default-jre-headless if need a GUI or not, and > java<N>-runtime or java<N>-runtime-headless as provided by > alternative Java environments). > > However, java<N>-runtime packages are virtual packages provided by > default-jre so I don't understand why. Could anyone clarify?
others explained already, here is another reason for the default-jre | *-runtime dependency: If you have multiple openjdk versions in the archive, during transition periods and as backports, then this dependency makes sure that you always get the default dependency. I have seen a lot of users complaining about packages pulling in openjdk-9 unintended, which only use *-runtime as a dependency. Matthias
