--- "Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: jikes > Version: 1.18-6 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi all! > > I used to be very busy/without net during last months but I am back. > And attacking ;-) > > The problem is that currently jikes (in the sense of source package, > which is important from testing migration scripts POV) depends of > a whole pile of packages. Just take a look: > http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=jikes > > The problem is that jikes privides wrappers which depend on every > possible JVM in Debian. So for ex. if *ANY* of them won't make it > into testing - we won't have jikes in testing and thus in stable! [0] > > Probably the proper fix for that would be that creation of wrappers > should be only up to JVM/classpath maintainers and be done by them, > probably in their JVM/classpath packages.
Wouldn't it be better to provide the wrappers as separate jikes-on-xyz packages, that would depend on both jikes and the VM/classpath package? jikes could depend on any one of the wrapper packages being installed, if that's possible with debian's dependency system. cheers, dalibor topic __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
