On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:48:40 +1000 Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> wrote: > > Yes, maybe this is short. On the other hand, one can take into > > consideration that the last message of Ean about upgrading (at that > > time it was to kaffe 1.1.0) was almost two month ago (see > > #196867). And there has been a mail on this list (which I assume he > > should read) about problems contacting him. > > I understand the problem, and the reasons you cite are reasons for > wanting to NMU in the first place, not for doing a highly irregular > new upstream NMU right now. For such a significant change I'd allow > Ean ample time to respond (and perhaps this response will be "yes > please, go ahead"). Recall that NMUs are generally used to fix bugs > whilst minimising unrelated changes. Presumably this is because with > a large software package like kaffe, there may be all sorts of > subtleties with packaging, upgrade paths, etc. that the maintainer is > familiar with but an NMUer might not know about. Bug-fix-only NMUs > generally do not fall prey to such problems. New upstream release > NMUs do. As I said: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 23:31:33 +0200 (CEST) Arnaud Vandyck <arnaud-guest@users.alioth.debian.org> wrote: [...] > As I'm not a DD and also not the kaffe maintainer, I will not upload > the package, nor ask for a sponsor to upload it. As I did nothing > special to build the package, everybody feel free to modify the > changelog and upload > (!!! except #196867, NO bug should be closed with the changelog!!!). You can see that I introduced some problems because I'm not familiar with the package but as I am on holliday, I'm trying to help Debian the more I can;) On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:12:43 +0200 Stefan Gybas <sgybas@provective.de> wrote: [...] > Unfortunately, your packages don't work - at least on i386. Building > libant1.5-java with your Kaffe package fails. The Ant build process > calls itself during the build (and thus starts a JVM) but using > JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/kaffe does not compile and classes at all. The JVM > simply does nothing. > > When using my locally compiled Kaffe 1.1.1 (just ./configure; make; > make install) it works fine (after creating > /usr/local/kaffe/share/kaffe). So I guess the options to ./configure > need to be fixed in debian/rules. Maybe upstream can help us finding > the best options? > > BTW, does Kaffe 1.1 still need libffi2-dev (on powerpc only) as > specified in debian/control? [...] Best regards, -- Arnaud Vandyck, STE fi, ULg Formateur Cellule Programmation.
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