Bug#818304: tzdata-java: Removal of tzdata-java in tzdata 2016b-1 makes openjdk-7 uninstallable

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On 2016-03-16 08:02, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> Package: tzdata-java
> Version: 2016a-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> in tzdata 2016b1, tzdata-java was removed. openjdk-7 is now uninstallable on
> unstable because openjdk-7-jre-headless depends on tzdata-java.
> 
> Please restore tzdata-java so that openjdk-7 can be installed on unstable.

We can't do that. The support to build tzdata-java seems to have been
removed from openjdk, that's why we had to stop building it. Anyway it
seems that openjdk-7 will be removed soon given the bugs that have been
opened:
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814157
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814159
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814165
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814167
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814174

Now it would be could if openjdk people can actually comment on that.

Aurelien

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