Re: Packaging applications with JVM version restrictions

2023-04-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023, Rob Browning wrote: >Is there Is there a policy or preferred way to handle a package that >needs a particular version or versions of java? e.g. say it doesn't >work with < 9. From a Depends standpoint, java9-runtime-headless or java9-runtime. But… >I could imagine it might

Packaging applications with JVM version restrictions

2023-04-17 Thread Rob Browning
Is there Is there a policy or preferred way to handle a package that needs a particular version or versions of java? e.g. say it doesn't work with < 9. I could imagine it might not want to just rely on /usr/bin/java because you might not want it to break if the system has 8 and 11 installed, an