Re: jmock2

[Stephen Nelson <stephen@eccostudio.com>]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Stephen Nelson <stephen@eccostudio.com> wrote:
> On Monday, September 2, 2013, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
>>
>> Le 02/09/2013 17:55, Stephen Nelson a écrit :
>>
>> > Thanks for finding that commit. I'll try and build with this later
>> > version and see how it goes. As it's a breaking API change how can I
>> > easily find the packages that have a build dependency on jmock?
>>
>> You can get the reverse build dependencies with:
>>
>>     build-rdeps libjmock2-java
>>
>> That gives:
>>
>>     gradle
>>     libjtype-java
>>
>>
>> Emmanuel Bourg
>>
>
> Thanks for that Emmanuel. I'm trying to package the 2.7-SNAPSHOT version
> which includes the fix for Java 7. What's the correct procedure as there's
> no official version and no tags? Plus the repo has moved from SVN to GitHub.
>
> I thought about importing the upstream repo into a separate branch, and then
> merging that with master, but not sure if that's the right way to do it.
> Plus to build the orig.tar.gz there's no official file so should I assemble
> it myself?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Stephen

I'm struggling this package a bit. I contacted the upstream to see if
they are planning to release a version that builds with Java 7 in the
near future and I received this reply:

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Steve Freeman <> wrote:
> Thanks for helping out. Java 7 breaks some of the code, so we need to look at how to address that.
>
> For the moment we've been using jars compiled with 6, which isn't great but seems to work.
>
> S

As the plan is to remove Java 6 from the next Debian release this
doesn't seem a workable solution. I could try to work with upstream
getting it to work correctly but I'm not familiar with the code.

Many thanks

Stephen