On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Torsten Werner<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I have rebuilt 116 source packages from the trunk dir in SVN with > Ubuntu's version of java-common which uses openjdk as the default-jdk > instead of gcj. 3 packages fail to build now. I have filed bug reports > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=java-common;[email protected]> > that are easy to fix. I plan to upload a new java-common as discussed > at Debconf9 yesterday if nobody objects. > > How to use java-common: a package that does not need a specific jdk > should Build-Depends: default-jdk and set > JAVA_HOME:=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java but a package that builds *-gcj > binary packages should Build-Depends: default-jdk-builddep instead.
This is a welcome move from Ubuntu developers point of view. Now that the tool chain for java will be same in both distributions more patches can flow in either direction. Cheers, Onkar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
