Re: java architecture

2008-08-18 Thread peter green
No Idea, but I'm happy to accept suggestions / patches for javahelper to do these things if it is helpful. Surely though you don't need to use the path to these directly? The JRE/JDK should deal with that What about apps like jcc (the app where I submitted and had accepted a patch that use DE

Re: java architecture

2008-08-18 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Aug 18 20:14, peter green wrote: > is there a correct way to get the name of the architecture for java, that > is the ??? in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/???/ files>. In the last package I fixed up that needed to know I used > DEB_BUILD_ARCH_CPU and special cased powerpc but I can't

Re: Bug#491805: RFS: sqlline

2008-08-18 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Hi, Le Sunday 17 August 2008 17:42:18 Cyril Brulebois, vous avez écrit : > - I assume libjline-java will pull the needed java machinery so you >don't have to depend on a java runtime environment; is that correct? As said by Matthew, sqlline is an application so it must depends on JRE. I've a

java architecture

2008-08-18 Thread peter green
is there a correct way to get the name of the architecture for java, that is the ??? in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/???/object files>. In the last package I fixed up that needed to know I used DEB_BUILD_ARCH_CPU and special cased powerpc but I can't help feeling that is a bit of a dirty

Re: selecting a java runtime

2008-08-18 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Aug 18 18:40, peter green wrote: > are there any scripts in debian for locating a java runtime based on a set > of criteria such as java versions supported and whether or not it is a > sun/sun based runtime. > > or to put it another way what should packages that cannot run acceptablly > w

selecting a java runtime

2008-08-18 Thread peter green
are there any scripts in debian for locating a java runtime based on a set of criteria such as java versions supported and whether or not it is a sun/sun based runtime. or to put it another way what should packages that cannot run acceptablly with gcj be doing to ensure they run with a sun bas

Re: packages with build dependencies on openjdk-6-jdk

2008-08-18 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > - build dependencies should be of the form openjdk-6-jdk | >cacao-oj6-jdk, or else builds will fail on s390. > Shouldn't instead architecture specific build-depends be used? Best, Michael pgpIi2Z9VR8GP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: sqlline

2008-08-18 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun Aug 17 17:42, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Damien Raude-Morvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (13/08/2008): > > Cyril, did you have time to sponsor this package (if it's ok for you, > > of course)? > > Here are some comments: > - I assume libjline-java will pull the needed java machinery so you >don'

Update of fop package

2008-08-18 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello, Needing a more recent version of fop for jeuclid package [1], I updated the package and in the meantime closed a few bugs. If I can do anything more to help on this, don't hesitate! Thanks! Sylvestre [1] http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/ Index: debian/control

packages with build dependencies on openjdk-6-jdk

2008-08-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Unfortunately there is a lot of packages with build dependencies on openjdk-6-jdk directly, which is a bit unfortunate. Most likely all packages build depending on openjdk-6-jdk should have RC bug reports because they may contain 1.6 bytecode. The following should be checked for the release: - if

freeze exception for cacao-oj6

2008-08-18 Thread Matthias Klose
proposing a freeze exception for cacao-oj6 for testing. cacao-oj6 is a copy of the openjdk-6 package with the cacao sources included. Compared to openjdk-6 on architectures without the Hotspot JIT support, cacao-oj6 (including a JIT) is a much faster JVM on the architectures where it does build (po

Re: packages with build dependencies on openjdk-6-jdk

2008-08-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 19:25:52 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > - build dependencies should be of the form openjdk-6-jdk | >cacao-oj6-jdk, or else builds will fail on s390. > Why would that make a difference? Alternatives in build-deps aren't considered by sbuild. Cheers, Julien -- To U

Re: RFS: sqlline

2008-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Damien Raude-Morvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (13/08/2008): > Cyril, did you have time to sponsor this package (if it's ok for you, > of course)? Here are some comments: - I assume libjline-java will pull the needed java machinery so you don't have to depend on a java runtime environment; is that co