[Sablevm-developer] Bug#238768: sablevm should provide java2-runtime

[Etienne G. <gag...@uq...>]

Package: sablevm
Version: 1.1.0-5
Severity: normal

If you use dselect to install "ant", dselect will try to install
another JVM than sablevm (such as Sun's non-free JDK) to run it,
because sablevm does not "provide" java2-runtime.

Yet, sablevm should be sufficient to run ant and many other Java
applications.  SableVM does implement the "Java 2" specification, and
thus should provide java2-runtime, even though it is incomplete;
incompleteness is simply an incentive to contribute more to this Free
project.  Not "providing java2-runtime" excludes sablevm as a runtime
system for software such ant, which goes against Debian's objective to
promote Free software (such as SableVM) over non-free software (such
as Sun's JDK).

Etienne


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages sablevm depends on:
ii  java-common                 0.22         Base of all Java packages
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libffi2                     1:3.3.3-3    Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libltdl3                    1.5.2-1      A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsablevm1                 1.1.0-5      Free implementation of JVM second 
ii  unzip                       5.50-3       De-archiver for .zip files

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