Bug#211909: acknowledged by developer (these aren't built because they don't build)

[Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

reopen 211909
thanks

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:03:14PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #211909: Java packages are not built on HPPA, MIPS, MIPSEL,
> which was filed against the gcc-3.3 package.
> 
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>.

[snip]

> The reason gcc doesn't build gcj for some architectures is that they currently
> do not work.  You're welcome to work on fixing it for the archs in question
> upstream, as these architectures don't build from source (and/or don't work
> at all), so they can't be built.

This is *NOT* the right way to fix this bug. You have to change the 
Architecture field to list only the supported archs.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Architecture

So change all "any" for the java packages, to "i386 sparc m68k " etc...


Thanks,
Adam