Re: Jikes busted up good - not suitable for sarge
On Thursday 08 August 2002 23:31, Adam Majer wrote:
:> Package: jikes
> Tag: sid
> Severity: serious
>
> The new version of Jikes, namely 1.16, is not suitable for release.
> It contains some strange miscompilation errors. My current strategy
> is to attempt to fix them and/or use the upstream patches to fix these
> bugs.
>
> If we get close to the next release (sarge) and jikes continues to be
> broken, then it will be downgraded back to another, differently
> broken version 1.15 that's currently in testing.
>
> For now, if you are compiling something that is to be released, please
> use jikes from testing.
>
> In the mean time, if you find bugs that haven't been reported yet,
> please, report them with minimal source code to reproduce the bug. If
> patch is available please provide it.
>
> Thank you,
> Adam
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