Re: JavaCC update

2016-12-16 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hi all, ok, I didn't intent to update javacc in unstable to 6.x before stretch either way, but creating a javacc6 remove the pressure from the transition. With a javacc6 package we can bring the packages to javacc6 one by one without holding up the javacc6 upload and hopefully, the workload for up

Re: JavaCC update

2016-12-15 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 14/12/2016 à 20:03, Benjamin Mesing a écrit : > Any further thoughts? Thank you for checking the reverse dependencies. The update looks rather disruptive and we are no longer supposed to do transitions at this point. Maybe a safer solution would be to upload a new javacc6 package now, and late

Re: JavaCC update

2016-12-14 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hi all, > >   * update javacc to 6 and create a javacc5 package, patching all > > the > > packages which do not compile with 6.1.3 (requires a team > > effort) > > +1 for this solution. I can help switching the broken packages back > to > javacc5. So be it. This is probably a task, that will

Re: JavaCC update

2016-12-11 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 11/12/2016 à 15:45, Benjamin Mesing a écrit : > I now see several options: > > * update javacc to 6 and create a javacc5 package, patching all the > packages which do not compile with 6.1.3 (requires a team effort) +1 for this solution. I can help switching the broken packages back to j

Re: JavaCC update

2016-12-11 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hi, I have prepared a javacc 6.1.3 package and recompiled some of its dependencies.  So far three packages fail to compile (there are probably more):  * css-parser  * lucene-solr  * lucene2 All three packages are a couple of years behind the latest upstream version. Is there an easy way to autobui

Re: JavaCC update

2016-12-07 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi Benjamin, Le 7/12/2016 à 17:46, Benjamin Mesing a écrit : > Do you plan on updating javacc anytime soon? > If not, do you see any obvious reasons, why an update might not be > recommended (like any breaking changes in 6.x). I didn't plan to upgrade javacc before the release of Stretch. I don'

JavaCC update

2016-12-07 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hi Emmanuel, today I've made another attempt to update libjavaparser-java  (http://javaparser.org/) which is a prerequisite for updating umlet. However, the latest version of libjavaparser-java fails with javacc 5.0 (available in Debian and used by mvn-debian) while it compiles fine with javacc