guavac bug #22325
Hi Brian,
Bug #22325, marked important, says that my package guavac has an
unsatisfied suggestion on java-virtual-machine. I need your
advice on what to do about it.
My thoughts are:
1. It's a suggestion only, so nothing will break if it doesn't exist.
Unfortunately dselect is a bit picky about even suggestions.
At the time I last built it, kaffe existed [albeit it in contrib]
which satisfied the suggestion. (Interestingly there's my reported
bug #16652 IIRC which says that javalex should move to contrib
since it depends: java-virtual-machine -- but even that move won't
solve its deps now). Perhaps there's the standard bug in dselect,
`dselect is not user friendly', here.
2. It's a bug in some other package that java-virtual-machine doesn't exist.
It's a registered virtual package name, AFAIK, so at one stage
it must have been provided. jdk1.1-runtime should probably provide it
but doesn't [bug?].
3. I could built it again without the suggestion. However the suggestion is
valid, and more to the point, with the C++ compiler changeover
it doesn't build out of the box. This is bad in its own right, but
I think not `important'. I will have to spend some time tweaking it,
and then hope that it still works as a result. I would prefer to avoid
this.
thanks,
Hamish
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