On Mon, 31 Oct 2022, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Also worth noting, default-jre now provides a versioned java-runtime
> dependency. This means we can now replace the java<n>-runtime dependencies
> with java-runtime (>= n).
No, we really should not: the various JDKs also only provide
java<n>-runtime and this dependency is specifically meant to
also make it possible for software to use a JRE *other* than
the default (the dependency reads like
default-jre (>= x) | javaX-runtime
by design/for a reason).
Given how they stretch across versions and how many releases
are supportable (ELTS from jessie on, *buntu from trusty on)
I will argue that if and only if the openjdk-X source packages
also start providing these _now_, that we can start switching
to the versioned java-runtime provide in 2030, maybe later.
bye,
//mirabilos
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