On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 17:31, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:26:21PM -0400, James Damour wrote: > > It was my understanding from the Debian Java policy > > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/x73.html) that > > by depending upon the java2-runtime (which is *not* supplied by gcj > > 3.3), the filler package is correctly identifying a dependency that > > wasn't satisfied on the system of the user in bug 255831. The fact that > > there is *NO* package in Debian (main or contrib) that satisfies the > > dependency is what causes the FTBFS bug. On the other hand, once the > > Free Java hackers catch up, filler should run without modification. > > filler is in contrib, see > http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib > > packages in contrib are allowed to FTBFS due to missing dependencies in > Debian. You may close any FTBFS bugs on filler caused by missing java2 > packages in Debian referring to the debian policy, it is acceptable > for contrib to FTBFS due to missing dependencies. OK, good to know. > > Your package doesn't propagate to testing at the moment due to missing > depends, but this issue is currently being worked on by Andreas Barth. > I didn't know that. Should I try to contact Andreas and offer to help? > --Jeroen -- James Damour (Suvarov454) <suvarov454@users.sourceforge.net>
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