Bug#759558: gcj-4.9-jdk: broken symlinks for j{awt,ni}{,_md}.h
Am 28.08.2014 um 18:08 schrieb Steven Chamberlain:
> reassign 759558 gcj-4.9-jdk
> found 759558 gcc-4.9/4.9.1-9
> thanks
>
> gcj-4.9-jdk isn't a source package, so the BTS seems a little confused
> about who to mail about this bug; I don't think the maintainers were
> notified. The original bug report is here:
> https://bugs.debian.org/759558#5
fixed in the VCS.
> Thanks, nice to know about this. FWIW I'd prefer openjdk-7 as
> kfreebsd's default JDK.
>
> We may see kfreebsd-specific issues in openjdk-7 or gcj-4.9-jdk from
> time to time, but increasingly, if other architectures have switched
> over to openjdk-7, we'll see more issues like this which are
> "FTBFS/broken on kfreebsd" but actually due to gcj and not the
> architecture itself.
>
> And AIUI gcj is sort of deprecated within the GCC project now?
The good thing about gcj is that it doesn't break with upgrades, while openjdk-7
does on KFreeBSD. We had several months periods where the debian-bsd maintainers
didn't care about updating their patches and were blocking the Debian project
with this kind of attitude. See several emails from my side to the debian-bsd
and debian-java ML's. Apparently this didn't change with OpenJDK-8, the current
packages fail to build. No effort was made to get the kfreebsd port upstream. I
agree it would be good to switch to OpenJDK-7 for kfreebsd as well, but I can't
see any action from the KfreeBSD people how to bring the kfreebsd changes
upstream and keep up with the openjdk packages in Debian, and not blocking
current Debian development instead.
Matthias
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