On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:30:53 -0400
Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:

> I'm running devuan alpha4

I assume that there is no other alpha4 than the current Jessie...

> Problem is that I can't install
> default-jre because the tzdata-java package on which it depends can't
> be found.

I have the default-jre (and tzdata-java) installed on two Devuan Jessie
systems and I am not aware of any bugs. Also, a

$ apt-get install --reinstall tzdata-java

with the .deb removed from /var/cache/apt/archives, returns without
errors.

> This is a known bug.

Couldn't find a bug report. Can you provide a link?

> Is there a work-around

Without being able to reproduce your problem, I would suggest to
download the tzdata-java package from
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/tzdata-java and manually install it
with dpkg.


Florian