Package: jikes Version: 1.18-6 Severity: wishlist Hi all! I used to be very busy/without net during last months but I am back. And attacking ;-) The problem is that currently jikes (in the sense of source package, which is important from testing migration scripts POV) depends of a whole pile of packages. Just take a look: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=jikes The problem is that jikes privides wrappers which depend on every possible JVM in Debian. So for ex. if *ANY* of them won't make it into testing - we won't have jikes in testing and thus in stable! [0] Probably the proper fix for that would be that creation of wrappers should be only up to JVM/classpath maintainers and be done by them, probably in their JVM/classpath packages. Are there any reasons not to do so? Regards Grzegorz B. Prokopski [0] It was some 3 months ago when I had IRC conversation with some of our serious developers about how packages migrate to testing and unless I seriously misunderstood his repeated and reiterated (at my request) explaination (in my own words): These are *source* packages which migrate into testing, thus if *any* of binary resulting packages is held in unstable - whole source package and thus *all* it's resulting binary packages are stuck in unstable and none of them can migrate to testing. -- Grzegorz B. Prokopski <gadek@debian.org> Debian http://www.debian.org/
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