[Sablevm-developer] Bug#233902: does not provide java2-runtime...should it?

[Greg A. <de...@ga...>]

Package: sablevm
Version: 1.0.9+svn20040120-2
Severity: important
Tags: sid

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/virtual/java2-runtime
states that sablevm provides java2-runtime.

I don't know how that page was generated but it appears to be incorrect.
Is that page libelous, or does sablevm provide a java2-runtime and just
fails to advertise it?

from /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages:
   Provides: java-virtual-machine, java1-runtime, java-runtime

Note that /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/virtual-package-names-list.txt.gz
from  debian-policy 3.6.1.0  indicates that java-runtime is not a valid
virtual package:
   Java and virtual machines
   -------------------------
    java-compiler           a java compiler, for Java version 1
    java2-compiler          a java compiler, for Java version 2
    java-virtual-machine    a JAVA virtual machine
    java1-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 1
    java2-runtime           a Java runtime environment, Java version 2

Does sablevm really implement a novel variety of java that cannot be
described in the approved virtual packages?  Or is this the result
perhaps of an accidental application of a debian-experimental change
to debian-unstable?

Note that this makes all packages with Depends: java2-runtime
uninstallable, as sablevm is the only installation candidate.

If anyone cares to tell my ignorant self how to tell debian that I
have installed java2-runtime on my own, I'd be much obliged. :)

Thanks,
- Greg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux stallion 2.4.24 #4 Wed Feb 4 10:01:12 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages sablevm depends on:
ii  java-common          0.14                Base of all Java packages
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-11        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libffi2              1:3.3.3-1           Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libltdl3             1.5.2-1             A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpopt0             1.7-2               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsablevm1          1.0.9+svn20040120-2 Free implementation of JVM second 
ii  unzip                5.50-1              De-archiver for .zip files

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