[Pkg-octave-devel] octave package depends on default-jre-headless

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 23:04:09 +0100, Kim Rydhof Thor Hansen wrote:
> Hi Debian Octave Group
> 
> Trying to upgrade to Java 8 and uninstalling all Java 7 packages I
> noticed that the octave package depends on default-jre-headless,
> couldn't that be changed to a dependency on the correct version of
> java#-runtime-headless?

It would be a nice improvement but will require some work upstream. For
now, the path to the Java runtime is detected and compiled into the
Octave libraries. We set that to be /usr/lib/jvm/default-java. There is
currently no way to change the path without recompiling Octave.

I don't think there is a Debian bug tracking this, but please see
upstream bug #40111 [1] about this feature.

[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40111

Thanks,

-- 
mike