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[clacke <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was just playing devil's advocate with myself and trying to understand
why one would want to depend on a package or meta-package instead of a
virtual dependency. And it certainly is the case that different
implementations differ in how well the implement the APIs and how much
they implement.

For me, coming from the outside, it seems more obvious to depend on
java2-compiler than on default-jdk. But this is not the forum to discuss
this. Instead of spamming this bug with my objections and/or
misunderstandings, I will start reading at
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaPolicy> and see where that leads. Thank you
for the time you have given me.

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Inconsistent 'Provides' for different java compilers/runtimes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189953
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