[Sablevm-developer] Bug#238768: It's against current practice, please discuss it first.

[Grzegorz B. P. <ga...@de...>]

severity 238768 wishlist
thanks

The current practice is, that free java runtimes, which have their
classlibs based on similar sources, provide java1-runtime. Providing
java2-runtime, while seemingly the right thing to do, would introduce
unneeded confusion. See #233902 for reference.

Probably java1-runtime should be renamed to free-java-runtime and
java2-runtime to non-free-java-runtime, but we're about to release Sarge
and I also don't feel that this change is technically superior enough
to justify all the effort to make the change (it would require changes
in pretty much every java package).

If you still want to have it changed - please bring it on to the
debian-java mailing list and discuss it there. I changed severity of
this bug to "wishlist" (instead of closing as "invalid/wontfix") as
a blessing for doing so :-)

Cheers,

				Grzegorz B. Prokopski

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