Re: Bug#593627: java-common: please use openjdk as default jdk on powerpcspe
* Matthew Johnson | 2010-08-22 15:01:23 [+0100]:
>On Sun Aug 22 14:41, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> The problem with the default-jdk is that most architectures have openjdk
>> as default. Some packages however don't build with default-jdk !=
>> openjdk. One of them on top of my head is jffi without openjdk-6 [0]
>> with [1].
>
>Then that's a bug, that package must build-depend on openjdk specifically.
Okay so you want me to open bugs or do you want to do it yourself? I
have no access to wanna-build db and this would speed-up such a query :)
Besides jffi I just stumbled over lwjgl [0] having the same issue.
>> The problem with packages like default-jdk is that they pull in
>> different packages on different systems leading to different behaviors
>> and bugs. I don't like it :)
>
>default-jdk is there so that whenever we add a new arch to openjdk, or have to
>remove it, we don't have to update every single java package from openjdk [foo,
>bar, baz] | gcj-4.4 [quux]. Most java packages work with all the jdks we support
>and don't need to know about architecture-specific issues.
I see where you are going with this. So we check once in a while which
packages FTBFS with gcj and depend on default-jdk.
[0] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/build.php?pkg=lwjgl&arch=powerpcspe&ver=2.5%2Bdfsg-1
>Matt
Sebastian
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