Bug#371062: Bug#371060: libgcj7-dev

2006-06-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Koch wrote: [...] > IMO its now the best time to get rid of this package totally. Its not > needed anymore. GNU JAXP was merged into GNU classpath some time ago. > The only package depending on it is libjfreereport-java. I think we can > just r

Bug#371060: Bug#371062: Bug#371060: libgcj7-dev

2006-06-08 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 05:16:38PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > > IMO its now the best time to get rid of this package totally. > > FWIW, I'd forgotten that java-gcj-compat-dev even existed until your > mailout to d-d-announce last month ("GCJ 4.1 transition"). In this > mailout you ask maintain

Bug#371060: Bug#371062: Bug#371060: libgcj7-dev

2006-06-08 Thread Ben Burton
> IMO its now the best time to get rid of this package totally. FWIW, I'd forgotten that java-gcj-compat-dev even existed until your mailout to d-d-announce last month ("GCJ 4.1 transition"). In this mailout you ask maintainers of JNI packages to use -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/include, which relies

Bug#371062: Bug#371060: libgcj7-dev

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:36:56PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > > No, its enough to rebuild the package with the new gcc package pointing > > to gcc-4.1 installed. > > Sure, but relying on (build-essential + libgcj-dev) assumes that the gcc > and gcj versions will always be the same. Past experi

Bug#371062: Bug#371060: libgcj7-dev

2006-06-07 Thread Ben Burton
> No, its enough to rebuild the package with the new gcc package pointing > to gcc-4.1 installed. Sure, but relying on (build-essential + libgcj-dev) assumes that the gcc and gcj versions will always be the same. Past experience has suggested this is not the case, which is why I've leaned toward

Bug#371060: Bug#371062: Bug#371060: libgcj7-dev

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:48:01AM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > Hi, > > > Probably a solution would be including libgcj7-dev. > > It does. It build-depends on libgcj-dev (>= 4:4.1.0), which brings in > libgcj7-dev. > > >From the amd64 build log (which failed in this way): > > Unpacking libg