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[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/08/2013 16:21, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 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
I will be happy to perform this change when you want.

Thanks,
Sylvestre