Re: Migration of Scilab into testing

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>]

Le dimanche 18 octobre 2009 à 14:54 +0200, Luk Claes a écrit :
> Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:33:11 +0200, Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > 
> >>> Hello,
> > 
> > 
> >>> I have a migration unstable => testing issue with Scilab. I would like
> > 
> >>> to see it into testing but, for now, it does not respect the rule
> > 
> >>> "It must be available on all architectures on which it has previously
> > 
> >>> been built"
> > 
> >>> It is not due to Scilab but because openjdk-6-jdk is not available on
> > 
> >>> hppa.
> > 
> >>> Is it possible to have a manual migration here ? 
> > 
> > 
> >> No, unless the issue with openjdk-6-jdk can not be solved and it should
> > 
> >> also be removed on hppa?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I don't think there is any port planned to hppa. Therefor, if I understand
> > 
> > correctly, the 
> > 
> > best way to see Scilab into testing is too disable the build on hppa. Will
> > 
> > it enable the 
> > 
> > testing migration ?
> 
> Why can for hppa not another jdk be used?
Because, last time I tried, they were fully not operational for Scilab (which is using Swing GUI for example)

> Iff no other jdk can be used, then filing a removal bug against unstable
> to get the old binary packages removed will make it transition to testing.
I filed this bug against ftp.debian.org a few weeks ago:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550714

Thanks for your time,
Sylvestre