FS#7433 - Applications should depend on java-runtime, not jre

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 15:42 GMT
Last edited by Paul Mattal (paul) - Thursday, 24 January 2008, 03:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jason Chu (jason)
Jan de Groot (JGC)
Paul Mattal (paul)
Simo Leone (neotuli)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Various Java applications seem to depend on jre rather than java-runtime, which is provided by both jre and java-gcj-compat. Frostwire, for instance, requires jre, though it should depend on java-runtime, and as a result it can't be used with classpath (unless you feel like installing it without its deps and dealing with the package management nuisances that will follow). To be a bit more friendly to classpath users, these packages really should use java-runtime.
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Closed by  Paul Mattal (paul)
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 03:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 09 September 2007, 12:59 GMT
grep -R -H --include="PKGBUILD" -e "depends" -e "makedepends" /var/abs/* | grep jre

flags tomcat, itext and subversion. I assume jdk can depend on jre...
Comment by Paul Mattal (paul) - Tuesday, 09 October 2007, 14:44 GMT
Fixed in itext 2.0.6-2.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 15 December 2007, 06:49 GMT
Currently tomcat, kdebase and r. So two steps forward, two steps back...
Comment by Paul Mattal (paul) - Sunday, 30 December 2007, 22:34 GMT
Anyone object to me changing jre->java-runtime in tomcat, kdebase, and r?

Naysay within a week, or I will go ahead those. That should then be sufficient to close out this bug.
Comment by Paul Mattal (paul) - Saturday, 12 January 2008, 04:13 GMT
I've fixed tomcat in 5.5.23-2.

The depends in kdebase and r are makedepends; it seems to me it's fine to depend on the Sun VM at build-time. Is there an argument about this?

Comment by Paul Mattal (paul) - Monday, 21 January 2008, 02:07 GMT
I there anything left to do here, or can I close this? tomcat, kdebase, and r have been addressed.

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