Hi Matt, --- Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:11:06AM -0700, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > > > 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? > > Er...this is exactly what jikes does. > > mizar:[~] apt-cache show jikes-{kaffe,gij,sablevm,classpath} |grep Depends > Depends: jikes, kaffe, java-common > Depends: jikes, libgcj4 | libgcj3 | libgcj2, java-common > Depends: jikes, sablevm (>=1.0.5-1), java-common > Depends: jikes, classpath, java-common > > > jikes could depend on any one of the wrapper packages being installed, if > > that's possible with debian's dependency system. > > Jikes doesn't need to depend on any of them because it can be used on its > own. > > What you are missing is that Debian binary packages must stay in sync with > their source package, which means that all of the packages that jikes builds > are handled as a group for release purposes. > > If this is causing a problem, the obvious solution is to move the jikes-* > packages into separate source packages to allow them to be handled > separately from jikes itself.
thanks for quickly clearing up my mistakes! cheers, dalibor topic __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
