Did a fresh install of Quetzal Server, installed all updates. Installed default-jre-headless which pulled in OpenJDK 7 JRE without any X11-related packages. So far so good.
Now I try to install http://nectar-downloads.cloudbees.com/jenkins-enterprise/1.466/debian/binary/jenkins_1.466.2.1_all.deb (via apt-get after adding a software source and apt-get update) whose header according to apt-cache show jenkins says
Depends: daemon, adduser, psmisc, java2-runtime
But this proposes to install OpenJDK 6—with GUI!
$ apt-get -s install jenkins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fontconfig hicolor-icon-theme icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm
icedtea-netx icedtea-netx-common jenkins libasound2 libasyncns0
libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data
libcairo2 libdatrie1 libflac8 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common
libgif4 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libjasper1 libjbig0
libjson0 libogg0 libpango1.0-0 libpixman-1-0 libpulse0 libsndfile1
libthai-data libthai0 libtiff5 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libxcb-render0
libxcb-shm0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6
libxinerama1 libxml2 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxtst6 openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib sgml-base shared-mime-info
ttf-dejavu-extra x11-common xml-core
Why is apt-get not happy with the Java 7 runtime I already installed and which provides this virtual package?
$ grep-available -F Provides -s Package java2-runtime
Package: openjdk-7-jre-headless
Package: default-jre-headless
Even if I manually install the one missing dependency, daemon, there appears to be no way to force apt-get install jenkins to not try to pull in new Java dependencies.
I also tried downloading the *.deb and using dpkg -i to install it manually. But this also fails:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of jenkins:
jenkins depends on java2-runtime; however:
Package java2-runtime is not installed.
(Note: I am deliberately not here testing the jenkins package in Universe, which has a different dependency list…which seems to behave even worse.)
