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Re: Bug#788189: java-atk-wrapper: build depends on openjdk-6 which is going away



On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 14:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> James Cowgill, le Tue 09 Jun 2015 10:23:38 +0100, a écrit :
> > It's probably better to just depend on default-jdk.
> 
> java-atk-wrapper requires at least java 1.6. I would have tended to
> prefer to advertise this as a build-dependency (as 0.33.0-2 does) 
> than a build failure (as 0.33.0-1 did). That actually makes sense in 
> the kfreebsd case for instance, whois AIUI default-jdk is gcj, which 
> is at most java 1.5, but openjdk-7-sdk exists there too.
> 
> What do you think?

Firstly I'm not a java person, I just noticed this because the buildds
don't like ORed build-dependencies which are partially satisfiable. Eg
the freebsd and sparc builds are currently looping and will continue
until an admin stops them:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=java-atk-wrapper

I don't think it is possible (yet) to have a >= dependency on a java
version. You could depend on openjdk-7 but you'll have to update it
when the default changes.

On freebsd the latest version of openjdk-7 failed to build almost 2
months ago:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=openjdk-7

Maybe you could ask the java list for the best way to deal with this?

James

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