On 30/05/18 09:25, Julien Puydt wrote: > Hi, > > Le 29/05/2018 à 19:34, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit : >> Control: reopen -1 >> Control: retitle -1 scilab: depends on openjdk-8 >> >> On Mon, 14 May 2018 21:21:44 +0200 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <po...@debian.org> >> wrote: >>> On Fri, 04 May 2018 05:05:48 +0000 Julien Puydt <jpu...@debian.org> wrote: >>>> . >>>> [ Emmanuel Bourg ] >>>> * Fixed the build failure with Java 9 (Closes: #875790) >>>> . >>>> [ Julien Puydt ] >>>> * Depend on unversioned tcl/tk (Closes: #803526) >>>> * Force use of java 8 since later versions aren't supported (Closes: >>>> #875790) >>> >>> So is the build really fixed with Java 9 now? If so, why force Java 8? The >>> build >>> is failing on i386 with Java 8, so it may be good to go back to default >>> Java (9 >>> at the moment) to attempt to fix the build. >> >> Besides the FTBFS on i386 with openjdk-8: we are also moving to OpenJDK 11 >> for >> buster, and openjdk-8 will be removed from testing in due time. Thus please >> switch to openjdk 10 or 11 (or preferably to default-jdk). >> >> This is blocking the curl transition due to the FTBFS on i386, so I'd >> appreciate >> some quick action if possible. > > I'm a bit stuck : I took over the package and I'm trying to improve it, > but it's a complex package with big compilation times so even though I'm > working on it, progress is slow.
No worries. BTW the i386 java crash happens when building the documentation. So perhaps you could restrict building the documentation to the build-indep target, that should workaround the problem. Cheers, Emilio