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Re: Solving the default-jdk-builddep mess



On Tue Apr 13 00:46, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>> if this is available on all archs and doesn't do anything if gcj is not
>>> available, then yes.
>>
>> Yes, although if you are trying to build a -gcj package on an architecture
>> which does not have gcj, possibly failing the dependency is actually correct....
>
> No, it's not. All the current packages build on all archs, wether gcj is  
> available or not, but are empty packages on the archs without gcj (well, 
> just having the symlinks/copyright files in /usr/share/doc).
>

Retaining that behaviour is certainly possible, but surely it's better to only
build the packages on certain arches? If that's hard to do someone probably
needs to write a tool...

Matt

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Matthew Johnson

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