Re: Introducing distro-{jre,jre-headless,jdk,jdk-builddep} packages

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Subject: Re: Introducing distro-{jre,jre-headless,jdk,jdk-builddep} packages
From: Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:27:50 +0100
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  Hello Eric,

Eric Lavarde wrote:
> I don't see the advantage of this approach over well defined virtual
> packages, which I notice you seem anyway to implicitly expect
> (java5-runtime, java5-sdk, etc...).
> Can you perhaps elaborate a bit on this?

  Autobuilders cannot work with virtual packages. pbuilder cannot either.

	Vincent

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