On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Torsten Werner <mail.twer...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> doko had mentioned that -gcj packages offer performance improvements >> on architectures where JIT compiler is not present in JRE. > > But nobody is doing Java development today on architectures without a > JIT compiler. The buildds aren't affected because they are installing > neither Suggests nor Recommends. > >> Considering that OpenJDK (which has JIT) is available on most >> architecture these days I also support moving -gcj packages to >> 'Suggests'. > > Counting the votes from the list and the bug reports: 7 votes for > Suggests and 1 vote for Recommends. > > I think we SHOULD have a package relation of 'Suggests' but we MAY use > 'Recommends' for individual packages if there are good reasons. > (SHOULD and MAY as in RFC 2119) > > BTW, there are some packages without a relation. They should be fixed.
I was wondering if this needs to be added somewhere in documentation (wiki or policy) or is it ok to go ahead and do the changes to packages. Onkar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/c9c316091002230754s504f8eaana973b0fb537f...@mail.gmail.com
