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[Jonas Kalderstam <jonas.ubuntuone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tiago,

after some additional testing, this appears to be a solution, can you see
any problems with it?

```
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, bash, daemon, adduser, psmisc, lsb-base, openjdk-8-jre-headless | java8-runtime
Conflicts:
```

These were the results in my testing:

- With no JRE installed, openjdk-8-jre-headless is pulled in.
- With oracle-java8-installer from webupd8 already installed, no JRE is pulled in.

Am I correct in assuming that the first package (in this case openjdk-8
-jre-headless) will be installed in case none of the (virtual) packages
are installed on the system?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584118

Title:
  16.04 incorrectly installs openjdk-9 to satisfy java8-runtime
  dependency

Status in openjdk-9 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi,
  A user recently reported an issue on our bug tracker stating that our package was pulling in openjdk-9 and subsequently crashed when started. This apparently because openjdk-9 is the default choice for java8-runtime, which is quite surprising.

  Now it is technically correct that java9 does provide a java8-runtime,
  but java9 isn't even released yet and should definitely not be the
  default java8-runtime until that time.

  Same bug was reported against puppet here:
  https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/EZ-77

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