minimal / server installation for -jre package needed

[Matthias Klose]

In the past, Debian and Ubuntu had some bug reports requesting the possibility
to install the runtime on a system without any need to install any X, Motif, and
sound dependencies. On the other hand upstream asked for a "complete"
installation, if you install "the" runtime package. Using packaging dependencies
and splitting up installation files into several binary packages (built from the
same package source), you usually can satisfy both needs:

Package: foo-jre
Depends: foo-bin-core

Package: foo-bin:
Depends: foo-jre foo-bin-core foo-bin-cups foo-bin-sound \
	 foo-bin-awtswing foo-plugin

Package: foo-jdk
Depends: foo-bin, foo-jre

Are there any plans by upstream to recommend/suggest how such a split should be
done so that distributions don't differ too much, or is this completly up to
distributors?

  Matthias