Re: Help needed on the Java policy
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:47:41AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.
If that issue was reported and fixed in GCJ the patch should be in
Debian GCJ too. Matthias merges all/most upstream fixes into debian
GCJ. Which particular fix we are speaking about? Perhaps some patch was
missed.
Cheers,
Michael
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