On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 18:28 +0200, Miroslav Šulc wrote:
> Dne 15. 04. 21 v 17:56 Joakim Tjernlund napsal(a):
> > On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 17:21 +0200, Miroslav Šulc wrote:
> > > Dne 15. 04. 21 v 16:34 Joakim Tjernlund napsal(a):
> > > > On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 09:45 +0200, Miroslav Šulc wrote:
> > > > > in case the package does not work with java > 1.8 (still, i suggest we
> > > > > first try to resolve the issue before we use this restriction as it
> > > > > might cause some issues in the future)
> > > > > virtual/jdk:1.8
> > > > > virtual/jre:1.8
> > > > This does not seem to be enforced by java eclasses. Example 
> > > > dev-java/icedtea-web has
> > > > BDEPEND=virtual/jdk:1.8 but building icedtea-web with openjdk:11 as 
> > > > system default will
> > > > try to build with java-11 and the build will fail.
> > > not sure about BDEPEND but it should be enforced for DEPEND and RDEPEND.
> > > regular java apps use classes from jre (java runtime engine) and so they
> > > must have the dep both in DEPEND and RDEPEND, not BDEPEND. wrt this
> > > icedtea-web issue, this should be filed as a bug. thank you for
> > > mentioning this.
> > Don't think it is so simple, even if I add virtual/jdk:1.8 to DEPEND and 
> > changed
> > RDEPEND to virtual/jdk:1.8 it still fails.
> yes, looking at that icedtea-web ebuild, it inherits none of java 
> eclasses so it can't behave as a package that inherits a java eclass. 
> gyakovlev would definitely know better. generally, this thread is meant 
> for packages that inherit one of java eclasses, and even that is 
> oversimplified.
> > > 

Yes, I found the error in dev-java/icedtea-web. Q: Should one use JDK_HOME or 
JAVA_HOME in ebuilds?
However, BDEPEND vs DEPEND is still outstanding. I don't think it is wrong to 
use BDEPEND here?

Also, RDEPEND does not seem to matter, only BDEPEND

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