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[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Control: severity -1 important

On 05/21/2015 03:16 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Source: openjdk-8
> Version: 8u45-b14-3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> Trying to rebuild it in a wheezy chroot (probably also fails in sid).
> 
> make[6]: Entering directory `/tmp/openjdk-8-8u45-b14/build/hotspot'
>> &2 echo "*** This OS is not supported:" `uname -a`; exit 1;
> *** This OS is not supported: Linux tglase.lan.tarent.de 4.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.0.2-1 (2015-05-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Prefixing the dpkg-buildpackage call with “linux64 --uname-2.6”
> makes it work. And yes, I agree, this is among *the* most idiotic
> things in Linux recently – and even less published than the 3.0
> jump, even less useful, even less tested, etc.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers unreleased
>   APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: x32 (x86_64)

according to
http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/logs.php?pkg=openjdk-8&arch=x32

it never built before. So no justification for the escalation. Plus the severity
is wrong for the x32 port.