Matthew Johnson wrote:
I have a package which compiles in the sid java-gcj-compat-dev, but only runs with sun java (or, I assume, IBM, but since IBM isn't in the archive, I don't think it's all that important to cater for). I've filed bugs against gcj, which have been fixed upstream, and it will probably work with icedtea, but until either of those reaches the archive, I only depend on sun-java5 | sun-java6.
It seems to me like there's something major wrong here. Bugs get filed against gcj, I or one of the other gcj maintainers fix them, but the patches don't get applied to Debian's gcj package. So, despite the fact that the bug has been fixed, you still have to depend on Sun's Java. Andrew.