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MCL-22223

Minecraft launcher Debian package depends on default-jre

The debian package for the Minecraft Java Edition launcher depends on the default-jre package, which is unnecessary for two reasons.

  1. default-jre is a meta-package which installs openjdk-11-jre. Java 11 is outdated and Minecraft Java Edition needs Java 17.
  2. Minecraft Launcher installs Java 17 independently as java-runtime-beta and java-runtime-gamma.

This is also inconvenient for users who wish to choose what version of Java is installed system-wide.

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thecoder08

2022-08-20, 05:54 PM

2022-08-23, 12:03 AM

2022-08-22, 03:56 PM

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java17

2.3.324 (Linux)

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