Re: default-jdk change on kfreebsd

[Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>]

On 16:21, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Switching could -- as far as I understand -- work as follows:
> 
>  * Make openjdk-7 default. No other actions needed and should work for a
>    start
>  * Retry everything that failed to build before
>  * Probably BinNMU everything already built. Probably not strictly
>    necessary but both, Damien and Steven think it's a good idea. If I
>    understood everything correct both, the old and the BinNMUed packages
>    should work with either JDK so no "transition" needed

Yep exactly, this is not a normal kind of 'transition' as the built
packages should still work after the change;  there's also nothing
AFAICT that the 'ben' transition tracker could use to identify which
Java was used to build it.

However, the change could reveal bugs that get in the way of other
transitions (if some built package starts to FTBFS).  So maybe we could
handle this manually with some precautionary binNMUs, but only for
packages not currently in a transition.  My first estimate is that this
only involves 60 source packages or so.

Then from looking at past build failures we can probably find packages
appropriate for givebacks, and we'll get lots of new packages built in
sid.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org