On 2/11/21 10:40 AM, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi, > > On 11-02-2021 10:16, Matthias Klose wrote: >> These dependencies should look like: >> >> default-jdk [!hppa !hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-any] >> >> or >> >> default-jdk [alpha amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ia64 m68k mips64el mipsel >> powerpc ppc64 ppc64el riscv64 s390x sh4 sparc64 x32] >> >> It's also ok to use something like >> >> default-jdk [!hppa !hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-any] <!nojava> >> >> to be able to build with the nojava profile. I also see this used in many >> mono >> related build dependencies. >> >> Having such build dependencies in a package that is a required package for >> almost everything isn't helpful. > > Maybe a very stupid solution would be to have default-jdk be available > on all architectures, but just not pull in anything? IIUC that would > lead to build failures (because code that really needs the jdk will > FTBFS) but it avoids busywork for maintainers that are not involved in > bootstrapping java. Machine time is cheap, volunteer time is not.
Seriously? We didn't have any changes to the java architectures for the past three years. Calling a one time change "busywork"?