Bug#891697: octave-ltfat: FTBFS w/old Java (on hppa)
Source: octave-ltfat
Version: 2.2.0+dfsg-7
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
User: debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: hppa
Builds of octave-ltfat for hppa [1] (admittedly not a release
architecture) have been failing lately with numerous errors (and even
more warnings) trying to build under inst/blockproc/java. hppa is
noteworthy for having an outdated default-jdk package. (So is
hurd-i386, but octave itself is too old there at present.)
The fact that this error showed up between 2.2.0+dfsg-4 and
2.2.0+dfsg-7 suggests that it may be possible to do without this Java
code. However, if it really is necessary nowadays, please version the
build dependency on default-jdk to (>= 2:1.8~), noting the epoch.
Thanks!
[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=octave-ltfat&arch=hppa&ver=2.2.0%2Bdfsg-7&stamp=1518890201&raw=0
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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