Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Michael Koch said: > I'm currently working on a proposal for cleaning up the virtual package > chaos. Please give me some more days for this. Fair enough, let's consider as a warm up for the discussion that will come once you'll show your proposal ;-) Thanks, Eric -- You don't need to CC m

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-30 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Jan 30 14:20, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > > Michael Koch said: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:32:46AM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > >> - the Java Policy should state that a Java package should depend on > >> java2-runtime only if the packager expects its program to work wit

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Koch
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:20:59PM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > > Michael Koch said: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:32:46AM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > >> - the Java Policy should state that a Java package should depend on > >> java2-runtime only if the packager expects it

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Michael Koch said: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:32:46AM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: >> - the Java Policy should state that a Java package should depend on >> java2-runtime only if the packager expects its program to work with a >> classpath-alike implementation of Java. >> (what about

Re: FreeMind and gcj [Re: Help needed on the Java policy]

2008-01-30 Thread Andrew Haley
Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi Andrew, Andrew Haley wrote: I guess it depends on whether the program fails because a particular runtime has bugs or because the program depends on something it shouldn't use, such as com.sun.* classes. We're pretty complete with respect to 1.4, so I'd like to know wha

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Koch
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:32:46AM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi everybody, > > OK, second try at getting a common understanding: > > - the Java Policy should state that a Java package should depend on > java2-runtime only if the packager expects its program to work with a > classpath-

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi everybody, OK, second try at getting a common understanding: - the Java Policy should state that a Java package should depend on java2-runtime only if the packager expects its program to work with a classpath-alike implementation of Java. (what about IcedTea then?) - in the words of Michael: