Re: Re: best Depends: line for an app that needs Java 5 but prefers Java 6

2007-05-15 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Elliott Hughes said: > i think you're telling me, as i'd feared, that it isn't really > possible to do what i want to do. if that's the case, i think i'll > keep waiting -- at least until sun-java?-jre is in Ubuntu's main -- > and then "Depends:" sun-java6-jre. Use "Depends: sun-java6-jre | s

Re: Re: best Depends: line for an app that needs Java 5 but prefers Java 6

2007-05-14 Thread Elliott Hughes
Marcus Better wrote: > (Please don't CC me, I am subscribed to the list.) (sorry. i'm not, which is why it always looks like i'm starting a new thread, for which i also apologize.) > Elliott Hughes wrote: > > the application will be better with Java 6, so i'd really like > > to Depends: it, b

Re: Re: best Depends: line for an app that needs Java 5 but prefers Java 6

2007-05-14 Thread Marcus Better
(Please don't CC me, I am subscribed to the list.) Elliott Hughes wrote: > the application will be better with Java 6, so i'd really like > to Depends: it, but i don't want to shut out people on systems that have > an available sun-java5-jre but no sun-java6-jre. Why not? sun-java6-jre is availab

Re: Re: best Depends: line for an app that needs Java 5 but prefers Java 6

2007-05-14 Thread Elliott Hughes
Marcus Better wrote: > This advice is meant for packages in Debian, and only for build-depends. > You could for instance Build-depend on sun-java5-jdk and Depend on > something else. i was under a misapprehension about the JRE/JDK relationship on Debian. i see now, from looking at packages.debian.