On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 22:46 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Adam, > > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:23:11PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Just curious, what will happen regarding testing transitions in the > > meantime? And long-term, can I assume that the package will build and > > transition as soon as the infrastructure is in place, without another > > upload? > > I had to request removal of the packages from those architectures by > filing a bug against ftp.debian.org, since there seems to be no way to > get these packages working on those architecures as of now. I guess it > might not be prudent to wait for the availability of a JDK on these > architectures now, with the release getting closer. > > Please correct me if I am wrong. Okay, so... back to my original question: what is a package maintainer supposed to do? What are the other Java packages doing? Do we all specify architectures not including the broken ones? Or should I bug debian-release after the required ten days and tell them, "The package is supposed to transition even though it FTBFS on a bunch of arches, the debian-java people say so, please make it happen"? And can someone explain the rationale for disabling Java on a bunch of architectures very late in the release process, without an alternative solution in place? [Please continue to CC me in replies] Thanks, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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