On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:34:21AM +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers > <pkg-java-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > Changed-By: Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> > Description: > ant - Java based build tool like make > ant-doc - Java based build tool like make - API documentation and manual > ant-optional - Java based build tool like make - optional libraries > Changes: > ant (1.9.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium > . > * Non maintainer upload. > * Stop building the gcj packages. > * Remove Ludovic and Werner as uploaders.
Hello Matthias, You are listed as a member of the Java Team and as an Uploader, so there is no need for an NMU. There is an open bug in the BTS [1] for removing the GCJ packages that I had tagged as pending and for which I pushed changes to the VCS over a week ago. Your upload doesn't refer to the bug and so perhaps you weren't aware of it. Since you are a member of the team, will you push your changes to the VCS and handle the merge (as they step on changes I had already pushed)? My delay in uploading was because (a) it takes a long time to rebuild all of the reverse dependencies of ant (about 3 days on my machine, and that was complicated somewhat by the default-jdk change) and (b) because the update of the default-jdk results in an empty ant-javamail.jar. I was still in the process of looking at (b), preferring to wait a few days instead of uploading a package that might cause other breakages. Also, I thought that having tagged the bug as pending would be sufficient coordination with the rest of the team. In general, I think it would be helpful if the Java Team could rely on the BTS more for coordination. For team-maintained packages, the uploader can check the BTS and PTS [2] for open bugs and should always pull the latest master branch from the VCS before preparing an upload. Furthermore, I think it would helpful for developers to claim bugs as owners - particularly given how much is changing right now with the JDK9 transition. If the team doesn't like that approach or has other suggestions, please share them. Thanks, tony [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892528 [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ant
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