On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:03:50PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > It is policy that package that depend on non-free packages must go into > contrib. However, what if a package depends on a virtual package that > is only provided by packages outside of "main"? > > This came up in Bug#16652 where "javalex" depends upon "java-virtual-machine" > but that virtual package is only provided by "kaffe" which is in contrib.
The java virtual package names don't seem to be used much. javalex depends on java-virtual-machine, guavac (mine) suggests it, and kaffe provides it. But libpgjava and biss-awt both suggest jdk1.1-runtime instead. I couldn't actually find jdk1.1-runtime anywhere to see if it provides java-virtual-machine, shouldn't it be in non-free/devel? However, the java runtime package obviously didn't provide that package when I filed #16652 else I would have mentioned it (it still wouldn't solve javalex's problem though). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
