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Bug#593627: java-common: please use openjdk as default jdk on powerpcspe



On Sun Aug 22 14:41, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> * 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].

Then that's a bug, that package must build-depend on openjdk specifically. 

> 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 :)

default-jdk is there so that whenever we add a new arch to openjdk, or have to
remove it, we don't have to update every single java package from openjdk [foo,
bar, baz] | gcj-4.4 [quux]. Most java packages work with all the jdks we support
and don't need to know about architecture-specific issues.

Matt

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