Bug#793860: findbugs: Please consider depending on default-jre | java5-runtime

[Rogério Brito]

Package: findbugs
Version: 2.0.3+repack-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Java maintainers,

I would like to get some other virtual machines installed on my system
(e.g., the one from Oracle or have only openjdk-8---or openjdk-9 if I'm
feeling adventurous) and it would be super nice to have one of those fulfill
the dependencies that default-jre provides.

I know that (in part) the effect can be achieved via the alternative system,
but I think that having the alternative specified serves more than one purpose:

* From a minimalistic POV, it allows the user to have only one runtime
  installed.
* From a version requirement POV, having java5-runtime (or 6 or 7...) states
  clearly what is the minimum runtime version that the program requires.

There are probably many other reasons to relax the strict requirement of
default-jre (which, BTW, is a moving target), but those are the first ones
that come to my mind.

Since this bug report is quite "adventurous", I can perfectly understand it
if you think that a wontfix is suitable. :)


Thanks for your amazing work maintaining the Java packages,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages findbugs depends on:
ii  default-jre               2:1.7-52
ii  java-wrappers             0.1.28
ii  junit4                    4.12-2
ii  libasm3-java              3.3.2-2
ii  libcommons-lang-java      2.6-5
ii  libdom4j-java             1.6.1+dfsg.3-2
ii  libfindbugs-bcel-java     6.0~rc3-1
ii  libjaxen-java             1.1.6-1
ii  libjcip-annotations-java  20060626-5
ii  libjdepend-java           2.9.1-1
ii  libjformatstring-java     0.10~20131207-1
ii  libjsr305-java            0.1~+svn49-8

findbugs recommends no packages.

findbugs suggests no packages.

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