Ean Schuessler <ean@brainfood.com> writes: > On Thursday 29 January 2004 00:03, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > Since that just makes them clutter (files in the package that do > nothing at all) I think we should remove them or clean it out to just > those necessary. As it was an NMU, I did not want to completly remove them. >> 2° Dalibor told me that some patches could be Debian specific and >> will never been applied in upstream. So I did try to re-apply this >> patches in the next NMU. The 00JNIPatch has to be applied. Chatting >> with Dalibor, it seems the other patches do not have to be applied >> anymore. > > I suspected as much but I didn't know if you considered the new > kaffe.library.path feature to be a fix to #207998. There is also > another bug (number escapes me atm) complaining that Kaffe should > always check /usr/lib/ jni by default. I think that the patch needs to > be reworked. > > Since your NMU technically may have reopened old bugs lets try to > coordinate a little better before uploading NMUs. Please. n/p, when the next NMU will be in the archive, the patch will be re-applied so the bug will still be -done. >> 3° I have upload an 1.1.3-0.3 release of the package but I do not know >> where it is?! (the attachment is the result of the upload I did >> re-try tonight). I do apply the 00JNIPatch in this version of the >> package. (but still do not have any feed back). > > See above. More coordination? OK, n/p >> 4° I did compile kaffe with linux-pthread. > > Have you tried running Ant? I'm fairly sure that compiliing with > pthread will break any System.Runtime operations since Kaffe will not > be able to properly fork processes. Dalibor may be able to verify > this. Again, this change may reopen old bugs. Many people count on > the Kaffe+Ant combo. I did talk with Dalibor and Mark Wielaard about this and they both agree with the pthread (also another kaffe dev told me it was ok). But no, I did not run ant with it. Does someone with a pthreaded kaffe did that without problem? >> 5° I did add jikes-kaffe package in the kaffe source. > > I'm amenable to that change. Thanks. >> kaffe (2:1.1.3-0.3) unstable; urgency=low >> >> * debian/control: >> - autotools-dev, autoconf, automake, m4, libtool has been removed >> because they are not needed when building the package. >> - Suggests jikes >> - added jikes-kaffe package description >> - debhelper now versionned >= 4.1 >> * debian/jikes-kaffe.*: files for the jikes-kaffe package. >> * debian/wrappers/jikes-kaffe: added. >> * epoch version changed to upgrade the jikes-kaffe package. >> * debian/rules: >> - added the arch-indep part to build jikes-kaffe >> - kaffe is now built with unix-pthreads >> * debian/patches: removed all the patches but the JNIPatch because it's >> Debian specific. >> >> -- Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:33:13 +0100 >> >> I hope it helps, > > Of course it does! Maybe it'll be better when we'll have our kaffe-task-force on Alioth. Cheers, -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `-
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