Oh I should add that sun-j2re1.4 *provides* j2re1.4 so it would conflict without the epoch:
$ dpkg -s sun-j2re1.4 | grep Provides Provides: j2re1.4, java-browser-plugin, java-runtime, java-virtual-machine, java2-runtime
Again, all good :-) .
Oh I should add that sun-j2re1.4 *provides* j2re1.4 so it would conflict without the epoch:
$ dpkg -s sun-j2re1.4 | grep Provides plugin, java-runtime, java-virtual- machine, java2-runtime
Provides: j2re1.4, java-browser-
Again, all good :-) .