Re: RFS: netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-6 - This is a little bit important

[Andrew Ross <ubuntu@rossfamily.co.uk>]

On 27/11/13 19:34, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> On 26/11/2013 13:08, Vedran Miletić wrote:
>>
>> Why is this an issue? This updates is intended for stable only.
> The issue here is that we have to upload it before in unstable (cf the
> request of the Release Manager)
> To build correctly under unstable, I need to force the usage of
> openjdk-6-jdk...
> Package that we are trying to remove ... :(
Unless removal is imminent (days, rather than weeks), then it seems
reasonable to me to depend on it for the period of time required to get
the update into stable. If I've followed the thread correctly my
understanding is that Netbeans has been broken in stable by a Java
security update, and so fixing it isn't a stupid idea.

>> NetBeans 7.4, which is new upstream version, requires JDK7 and might
>> be packaged later for unstable, and it is unrelated to effort by
>> Joachim.
>>
> Do you know when this is going to happen?
>
> Cheers,
> Sylvestre
I'm tracking the effort on https://wiki.debian.org/Java/Netbeans - I've
got three packages awaiting sponsoring, two of which need to go through
the new queue, and the main netbeans package itself is pretty much
ready, although could do with some tidying. It uses openjdk-7 to build
(in fact Java 7 or greater is required). But if we're going to update in
stable then we should do this first, so the stable update can be tested
in unstable first.

Thanks,
Andy