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Re: How to solve a FTBFS caused by Build-Depends being removed from the archive?



On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 05:51:06PM -0800, Cameron Norman wrote:
> The bug in question is here:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768671
> 
> jenkins build depends on libjson-java, a package that was removed due
> to being suspected of containing non-free code (the JSON "For good,
> not evil" stuff), however it turned out that libjson-java was never
> actually affected by that
> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721072).
> 
> Still, the package (libjson-java) was removed from Jessie.
> 
> How can this bug in Jenkins be resolved (keeping it in Jessie)?
Only by dropping the dependency if it's possible.

> Can packages like libjson-java in sid migrate to jessie after the
> freeze in situations like this? 
According to https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html no.

> Or does jenkins not have any chance to be in jessie?
You can always ask the release team if they can make an exception to their
rules.


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