On Thursday 08 August 2002 23:31, Adam Majer wrote: :> Package: jikes > Tag: sid > Severity: serious > > The new version of Jikes, namely 1.16, is not suitable for release. > It contains some strange miscompilation errors. My current strategy > is to attempt to fix them and/or use the upstream patches to fix these > bugs. > > If we get close to the next release (sarge) and jikes continues to be > broken, then it will be downgraded back to another, differently > broken version 1.15 that's currently in testing. > > For now, if you are compiling something that is to be released, please > use jikes from testing. > > In the mean time, if you find bugs that haven't been reported yet, > please, report them with minimal source code to reproduce the bug. If > patch is available please provide it. > > Thank you, > Adam
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