On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Heiko Baums <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:29:49 -0500 > schrieb Eric Bélanger <[email protected]>: > >> > I know that no other packages depend on jre directly, and the >> > prefered method is now java-runtime, but doesn't that mean that >> > openjdk6 users will just have this software silently fail? >> >> In this case, make it depends on jre. You could put a note in the >> PKGBUILD to explain this dependency. And, when either openjdk or >> jgnash release new versions, you could test to see if they work fine >> together so you could switch back the depends to java-runtime. > > It would be better to set the dependency to java-runtime instead of > jre so that openjdk6 users can install and test jgnash. If jgnash > really fails to run with openjdk6 - I hadn't had any problems with > openjdk6, yet - then a bug report should be filed to upstream of > openjdk6 and/or jgnash. > > I don't think it's the matter of downstream to restrict the dependency > and to force the user using jre instead of openjdk6. > > So, please, change the dependency to java-runtime. > > Heiko >
Yes, these problems should be reported upstream to openjdk6 and/or jgnash. If you change the depends to java-runtime, it might be a good idea to display a warning via a post-upgrade message that there might be problems with openjdk6. So that users won't open bug reports about it.
