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[Christoph Egger <christoph@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Moin!

Steven Chamberlain <steven@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 16/08/13 13:15, Christoph Egger wrote:
>> I talked to rene here at DebConf. The problems did show up in the past
>> when running the testsuite (hangs). Rene tried with current OpenJDK on
>> falla -- in current kfreebsd sid -- and it does now works as well as
>> anywhere on !linux-x86 which means we should be fine from this side.
>
> Should we treat this as a transition co-ordinated with the release team,
> so that all rdepends are rebuilt?  I'd actually prefer this in any case;
>  it would fix some past build failures such as eclipse.  And possibly
> libjogl-java, leading to scilab and more being built.  (But perhaps
> these packages should also have had tighter Build-Depends if gcj is
> insufficient.)

I've been talking with Julien from the release team and Damien, the
openjdk maintainer here at DebConf.

Switching could -- as far as I understand -- work as follows:

 * Make openjdk-7 default. No other actions needed and should work for a
   start
 * Retry everything that failed to build before
 * Probably BinNMU everything already built. Probably not strictly
   necessary but both, Damien and Steven think it's a good idea. If I
   understood everything correct both, the old and the BinNMUed packages
   should work with either JDK so no "transition" needed

Comments? Opinions? I'm also still to reach for some chat at Debconf
untill tomorrow noon.

  Christoph

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