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[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/12/2015 12:52 AM, peter green wrote:
>>
>> This version of openjdk-7-doc doesn't contain any files other than the
>> copyright file and the changelog. The version in testing (7u75-2.5.4-2) is ok.
> 
> The underlying bug has been known for over 2 years, basically if the arch all
> packages for openjdk is built on anything other than a handful of specific
> architectures (i386, amd64 or lpia) it will build without docs. You can see a
> report of the issue at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690260
> 
> For 7u75-2.5.4-3 the maintainer upload was "source ppc64el all", this strongly
> implies that the arch all packages were built on a ppc64el system hence exposing
> the bug.
> 
> The issue could be papered over by bumping the version number and building and
> uploading on i386 and amd64 but IMO it should really be fixed properly. Building
> broken arch all packages depending on the build machine architecture is a very
> nasty bug IMO.

building the docs on zero archs is broken.  So the proper fix is to stop
building openjdk on zero archs, or to port hotspot to these architectures.  I
can't do the latter, so I'll do the former for stretch.  until then you have to
upload the package built on an hotspot arch.  I have adjusted the architecture
list in the packaging VCS.