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Why dependency on both default-jre and java<N>-runtime

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Hi

I was going through the pkg-java policy and found this [1]:

    Programs must depend on the needed runtime environment
    (default-jre or default-jre-headless if need a GUI or not, and
    java<N>-runtime or java<N>-runtime-headless as provided by
    alternative Java environments).

However, java<N>-runtime packages are virtual packages provided by
default-jre so I don't understand why.  Could anyone clarify?

Thank you
Carnë

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/x105.html

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Why dependency on both default-jre and java<N>-runtime Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-23 20:20 +0200
  Re: Why dependency on both default-jre and java<N>-runtime Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2017-08-23 22:50 +0200
    Re: Why dependency on both default-jre and java<N>-runtime Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> - 2017-08-24 16:20 +0200
      Re: Why dependency on both default-jre and java<N>-runtime Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-25 16:30 +0200
        Re: Why dependency on both default-jre and java<N>-runtime Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2017-08-25 16:40 +0200
          Re: Why dependency on both default-jre and java<N>-runtime Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 14:30 +0200
    Re: Why dependency on both default-jre and java<N>-runtime Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-24 16:20 +0200
  Re: Why dependency on both default-jre and java<N>-runtime Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2017-08-31 04:00 +0200

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