Bug#593627: java-common: please use openjdk as default jdk on powerpcspe
* Niels Thykier | 2010-08-21 16:13:34 [+0200]:
>Personally I am okay with doing it and it is the intention of the Java
>Team to make openjdk the default on all architectures. The question is
>if we should do it now or after Squeeze (CC'ed the release team) for
>their comments.
The problem with the default-jdk is that most architectures have openjdk
as default. Some packages however don't build with default-jdk !=
openjdk. One of them on top of my head is jffi without openjdk-6 [0]
with [1].
openjdk is allready default jdk for all main architecture except hppa,
kfreebsd-* and recently mips. All of them don't have openjdk-6 built.
openjdk-6 as it does not have architecture specific code but it might
trigger bugs in different areas. I guess that why it no longer builds on
mips.
The problem with packages like default-jdk is that they pull in
different packages on different systems leading to different behaviors
and bugs. I don't like it :)
[0] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/fetch.php?&pkg=jffi&ver=1.0.2-6&arch=powerpcspe&stamp=1281015166&file=log&as=raw
[1] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/fetch.php?&pkg=jffi&ver=1.0.2-6&arch=powerpcspe&stamp=1282286285&file=log&as=raw
>~Niels
Sebastian
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