Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-02-13 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
"Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > W liÅcie z czw, 12-02-2004, godz. 14:50, Adam Majer pisze: >> I think I'm going to reintroduce jikes-gij as part of jikes >> source. It might be the lesser of two evils. I think that >> adding jikes-gij to gcc is not the best idea :) And jikes

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-02-12 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z czw, 12-02-2004, godz. 14:50, Adam Majer pisze: > I think I'm going to reintroduce jikes-gij as part of jikes > source. It might be the lesser of two evils. I think that > adding jikes-gij to gcc is not the best idea :) And jikes-gij > is not going to slow down jikes anyway since gcc is

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-02-12 Thread Adam Majer
Hi, I think I'm going to reintroduce jikes-gij as part of jikes source. It might be the lesser of two evils. I think that adding jikes-gij to gcc is not the best idea :) And jikes-gij is not going to slow down jikes anyway since gcc is priority important and has an entire team working on it. - A

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-02-10 Thread John Leuner
classpath 0.07-2 has been accepted. Please let me know if there any problems with it or jikes-classpath John Leuner On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 00:33, Ben Burton wrote: > > Would it work if, say, classpath built a new package > > 'jikes-with-classpath' (whatever the name, but a new one), which > >

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:44:21PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:15:27AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > > > Irrespective of the testing issue, it seems obvious that just as the > > > jikes source package is

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-23 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:15:27AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > > Irrespective of the testing issue, it seems obvious that just as the > > jikes source package is the wrong place for these wrappers (why > > should the compiler know abo

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-23 Thread Ben Burton
> Yes, that makes it nice for users, but creates confusion for packagers. FWIW, I would expect packagers to know what epochs are and how to deal with them. > I agree the extra source packages are a bigger pain that will be > temporary, while the epoch solution is a mild pain that will last for

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-23 Thread Daniel Bonniot
1. People installing a VM do not need to install jikes so first one is out. I agree with that, as I said before. 2. The entire point of putting wrappers in the source package of another package (like a compiler, or JVM), is to not bloat the /pool with stupid little 20 byte sources. True, b

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > > These JVMs are encouraged and free to move these one-file wrappers to > > their own packages (which in turn will probably Depend: on jikes or > > make it Reco

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:46:40PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > Stefan Gybas wrote: > > >Daniel Bonniot wrote: > > > >>One solution to this (which I found at > >>http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10605.html) > >>would be to temporily make new (empty) versions of the jikes-* pack

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-21 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Stefan Gybas wrote: Daniel Bonniot wrote: One solution to this (which I found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10605.html) would be to temporily make new (empty) versions of the jikes-* packages with priority extra, and that only depend on the new jikes-with-* packages. T

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-21 Thread Stefan Gybas
Daniel Bonniot wrote: One solution to this (which I found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10605.html) would be to temporily make new (empty) versions of the jikes-* packages with priority extra, and that only depend on the new jikes-with-* packages. This would require a new

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Ben Burton
> This would take care of the automatic upgrade without the need of > epochs, at the (temporary) cost of a few more packages. How long would > the dummy packages need to stay? I don't know what the convention is, but I tend to leave them in until after the next formal debian release (in this ca

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Would it work if, say, classpath built a new package 'jikes-with-classpath' (whatever the name, but a new one), which 'Replaces: jikes-classpath' and 'Conflicts: jikes-classpath' ? Classpath could then keep its version number, and upgrades should still happen automatically. No they wouldn

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Ben Burton
> Would it work if, say, classpath built a new package > 'jikes-with-classpath' (whatever the name, but a new one), which > 'Replaces: jikes-classpath' and 'Conflicts: jikes-classpath' ? Classpath > could then keep its version number, and upgrades should still happen > automatically. No they

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Ben Burton
> And nobody is using the /usr/bin/javac alternatives anyway, right? In jython, the jythonc utility uses /usr/bin/javac as its default java compiler (just as it uses /usr/bin/java as its default java interpreter). Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > These JVMs are encouraged and free to move these one-file wrappers to > their own packages (which in turn will probably Depend: on jikes or > make it Recommend: and make wrappers fail gracefully or sth. like that). > > I seek

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Stefan Gybas
Daniel Bonniot wrote: But jikes-kaffe also needs to depend on jikes, while kaffe itself does not. I think a suggestion would be enough. The wrapper can be changed to print an error message if jikes is not installed. And nobody is using the /usr/bin/javac alternatives anyway, right? Stefan -- T

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Bonniot
If they are in separate packages which are then built by the JVM source packages, yes. However, I think they should just be in the "main package", e.g. directly in kaffe. jikes-kaffe depends on kaffe anyway so a separate package does not make a lot of sense IMHO. But jikes-kaffe also needs to d

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Etienne Gagnon
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:42:53PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > Epochs are a pain, if only because the look ugly and because they can > never be gotten rid of. Is this the only solution? > > Would it work if, say, classpath built a new package > 'jikes-with-classpath' (whatever the name, but a

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Stefan Gybas
Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: Speaking of maintenace. Currently jikes is at version 1.18-6. This means that currently these wrappers are also at version 1.18-6. Once they're moved to respective JVMs - they'll have the same versions as each JVM. If they are in separate packages which are then built

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Hi, Thus I'll upload a new version of jikes in a few hours without any wrappers. Great. Looking forward to a new jikes in testing. Everyone should make their packages either epoch 2 (ie. version 2:x.x.x) or make sure they are later or equal to 1:1.19 or so. Anything else would mess up the upgra

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-19 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z pon, 19-01-2004, godz. 21:44, Adam Majer pisze: > I'm not sure how long it will take these wrappers to dissapear from > sid by themselves (ie. not build from jikes source). I'm guessing > a few days at least. Someone could of course file bugs against > ftp-master to get them removed, bu

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-19 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:51:50PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It doesn't really matter to me. I just need everyone to agree on this > > so that the wrappers don't simply dissapear. Grzegorz (SableVM) surely > > will agree. gij will probably have lit

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-19 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't really matter to me. I just need everyone to agree on this > so that the wrappers don't simply dissapear. Grzegorz (SableVM) surely > will agree. gij will probably have little problem with this either. > > I just need a yes from both Ean (Kaffe)

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-19 Thread Ben Burton
> It depends. If you want to make sure that all unstable users will > get the wrapper updated - you'll have to add 2: epoh to current > version. > > However, as I said, it's unstable after all and the wrappers don't seem > to be changing their content anyway, so IMO you might as well decide to >

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-19 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z pon, 19-01-2004, godz. 10:34, John Leuner pisze: > > I just need a yes from both Ean (Kaffe) and John (Classpath). I can upload > > a new version of jikes tomorrow if everyone agrees. > > I can add the jikes-classpath script to the classpath package. good! > It wasn't clear from the d

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-19 Thread John Leuner
> I just need a yes from both Ean (Kaffe) and John (Classpath). I can upload > a new version of jikes tomorrow if everyone agrees. I can add the jikes-classpath script to the classpath package. It wasn't clear from the discussions exactly what version changes are required What versioning changes

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-19 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Adam, Adam Majer wrote: I guess if we can't work something out, we'll just have to fix kaffe :) I guess the simplest approach in this direction is to ask developers on those architectures to help with the FTBFS, in case that they are interested in using kaffe on those platforms. cheers, dal

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-19 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z pon, 19-01-2004, godz. 02:10, Adam Majer pisze: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:49:44PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > > W li?cie z nie, 18-01-2004, godz. 19:41, Adam Majer pisze: > > > PS. Furthermore, since these wrappers are NOT and should not be dependent > > > on version of th

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-19 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:49:44PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > W li?cie z nie, 18-01-2004, godz. 19:41, Adam Majer pisze: > > PS. Furthermore, since these wrappers are NOT and should not be dependent > > on version of the JVM (or kaffe), they should be maintained such that > > they work

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-18 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z nie, 18-01-2004, godz. 19:41, Adam Majer pisze: > PS. Furthermore, since these wrappers are NOT and should not be dependent > on version of the JVM (or kaffe), they should be maintained such that > they work with ALL the versions of the JVM. This should be simple enough :) Speaking of

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:04:55PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jikes only needs *any* version to be in testing. A given package has > > to be removed from testing for the current problems to occur. > > Hopefully, kaffe will get into testing by the middl

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-18 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: >> [*] This is completly irrelevant that jikes is currently held by >> Kaffe. Tomorrow it may be held by SableVM, and in a week by Classpath >> or GIJ. > > Jikes only needs *any* version

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-17 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z sob, 17-01-2004, godz. 15:50, Adam Majer pisze: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > > while jikes has: > > > > Recommends: jikes-gij | jikes-kaffe | jikes-sun | jikes-classpath | > >jikes-sablevm > > > > where jikes-sun is in the contrib sect

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-17 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
I asked at #debian-devel and was adviced to contact debian-release. So this is mainly for debian-release to take a look at. W liście z sob, 17-01-2004, godz. 06:38, Mark Howard pisze: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > > The problem is known, I pointed it o

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-17 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > [*] This is completly irrelevant that jikes is currently held by > Kaffe. Tomorrow it may be held by SableVM, and in a week by Classpath > or GIJ. Jikes only needs *any* version to be in testing. A given package has to be re

Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-17 Thread Mark Howard
Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > The problem is known, I pointed it out here at least once. Jikes > provides all these wrappers jikes-* for different JVMs. This makes the > source package dependant on ALL these JVMs. The result is that if ANY > [*] the

Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...

2004-01-16 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi! Please take a look at http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=jikes which says: "149 days old (needed 2 days)" !!! Current unstable version is 1.18-6, but testing is still at 1.15-2 ! The problem is known, I pointed it out here at least once. Jikes provides all these wrappers jikes-* for d