Re: Bug#571532: gij: Bus error when executing ant

[Eric Lavarde <Eric@Lavar.de>]

Hello,

Short version: +1

Matthias Klose wrote:
> We are short before the freeze; the release architectures still include 
> architectures which require gij in it's current form (hppa, 
> kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64). Please either port OpenJDK to these 
> archs (hey, you're still an OpenJDK maintainer ;), or stay with the 
> current ant version in testing. Packaging the 1.8 version as ant1.8 
> might be the better choice.

I'm not a big Java specialist, just a packager, but we've seen quite a 
lot of FTBFS bugs due to the upload of ant 1.8. I'm personally hit by 
one for FreeMind, so I would support Matthias' suggestion until someone 
explains what has actually changed in ant.

One more argument: ant 1.8 is obviously not backwards compatible with 
ant 1.7; this makes it a transition, which shouldn't be started that 
late and without preparation in the release process.

Thanks, Eric