Re: updating java-common for openjdk
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Torsten Werner<twerner@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have rebuilt 116 source packages from the trunk dir in SVN with
> Ubuntu's version of java-common which uses openjdk as the default-jdk
> instead of gcj. 3 packages fail to build now. I have filed bug reports
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=java-common;users=twerner@debian.org>
> that are easy to fix. I plan to upload a new java-common as discussed
> at Debconf9 yesterday if nobody objects.
>
> How to use java-common: a package that does not need a specific jdk
> should Build-Depends: default-jdk and set
> JAVA_HOME:=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java but a package that builds *-gcj
> binary packages should Build-Depends: default-jdk-builddep instead.
This is a welcome move from Ubuntu developers point of view. Now that
the tool chain for java will be same in both distributions more
patches can flow in either direction.
Cheers,
Onkar
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