On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > [*] This is completly irrelevant that jikes is currently held by > Kaffe. Tomorrow it may be held by SableVM, and in a week by Classpath > or GIJ.
Jikes only needs *any* version to be in testing. A given package has to be removed from testing for the current problems to occur. Hopefully, kaffe will get into testing by the middle of Feb. > PS: There's also an against-Policy bug in jikes. > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-main > Debian Policy 2.2.1 The main section says: > > "...package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or > "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package" > while jikes has: > > Recommends: jikes-gij | jikes-kaffe | jikes-sun | jikes-classpath | > jikes-sablevm > > where jikes-sun is in the contrib section. This should probably be > changed to Suggests: jikes-sun or removed altogether. > > This is at least a serious bug (or maybe rather a grave/RC, as there's > "must not" in the Policy) so we need an upload anyway. I have to disagree with you there, The policy states: * must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package) BUT, jikes Recommends on a "package" that is made up of both, main and contrib packages. That is, the "package" is a union between packages in main and one in contrib. I read the policy as "a package must satisfy its compilation and execution requirements using packages in main". Jikes recommends are satisfied in main. People should have a choice of installing something from main or something non-free (like SUN's java). We should not be punishing them for using something non-free. If I move jikes-sun to suggests, people only using SUN's java would be required to also install jikes-gij or jikes-kaffe or etc... if they are using dselect. Maybe it is just me, but I think this would discriminate against non-free software. I really would not want to move ALL of these to suggests. I guess I will have to do that if I'm wrong here. - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
