Re: Pseudo-package for JVM needed?
On Sunday 21 March 1999, at 23 h 51, the keyboard of Mike Goldman <whig@by.net>
wrote:
> reviewed by the lawyers right now), I have made jikes dependent on
> either jdk1.1 or kaffe.
...
> selection of JVMs by the end-user, without my having to continuously
> monitor alternatives and release new packages when I discover them,
> might it be a good idea to have a JVM pseudo package provided by these
> packages?
This is discussed right now on the debian-java mailing list, where I suggest that you participate.
To summary: the JDK package already Provides:java-virtual-machine. Kaffe does not but, to its defence, one could say that the Java Policy is still under discussion (see the drafts on debian-java...).
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