Hi Emmanuel, On 15 August 2014 at 22:56, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: | Le 14/08/2014 14:46, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | | > Sorry if I missed something ere, and I rushed the email out as I am on my way | > out of the door. | | Ok, let me recap. | | r-base build depends on default-jdk. Today default-jdk is an alias for | openjdk-7-jdk, it installs a symlink from /usr/lib/jvm/default-java to | /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64. r-base keeps the path to openjdk-7 in
On amd64, possibly a different symlink on other arches. Having the indirection is usually a good thing. | its configuration (/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64), instead of | /usr/lib/jvm/default-java, and this path is used to build rJava. | | The issue arises when the default-jdk package is updated and points to | the next version of Java. Since rjava build depends on default-jdk, it Right. Usually we get a 'call' to rebuild. | pulls openjdk-8-jdk, but the r-base configuration still points to | /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64. Since openjdk-7 hasn't been installed | the build fails. | | I think there is an inconsistency, because if you build depend on | default-jdk you should use /usr/lib/jvm/default-java. And if you need | /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 you should build depend on openjdk-7-jdk. | | I see 3 possible solutions: | | 1. Change r-base to keep the path to /usr/lib/jvm/default-java in its | configuration instead of /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64. This fixes | the issue once and for all. | | 2. Change r-base and rjava to build depend on openjdk-7-jdk instead of | default-jdk. They'll have to be updated again later to build depend on | openjdk-8. | | 3. Wait until OpenJDK 8 becomes the default version of Java in Debian | and rebuild r-base and rjava. But the issue will reappear when we | transition to openjdk-9. Good list and discussion, thanks for that. | Which solution do you prefer? I'd would prefer to keep it simple and go with 3. In the past we had explicitly named Depends, and I did get bug reports asking to renamed to the more indirect 'default-$foo' style packages. I still think that is best. Java major versions do not change that much. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
