Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Tags: patch Hi
Due to the wide spread misunderstanding of how default-jdk-builddep was supposed to be used, it has been deprecated by the Java Team. It has been replaced by default-jdk and gcj-native-helper[1]. The idea is that default-jdk will provide a Java Development Kit (particularly a java compiler and a jar tool) to compile java files into class files and stuff them into jar files (as it always have). gcj-native-helper is a new meta-package to pull the necessary tools to take a jar file and compile it into native application or library (e.g. dh_nativejava). Note that gcj-native-helper is *not* intended to supply a JDK, javac or jar. Any package needing to compile java files to class/jar files also need to depend on default-jdk (or similar). gcj-native-helper was introduced in java-common 0.38 and for the sake of backwards compatibility it also depends on default-jdk and also provides default-jdk-builddep. This is why I have suppressed a "missing-b-d" tag for dh_nativejava if default-jdk-builddep is used. However, since we (the Java Team) would like to remove all references to default-jdk-builddep, we would like to remove the provides (post Squeeze of course). ~Niels [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2010/04/msg00070.html Basically people thought it was a "Java Build Essential". However, it was default-jdk + tools to compile jar files into native applications/libraries. On some architectures this ends up pulling two Java Development Kits (which is a waste of time on the buildd machines)
From f9a5e2fafc22c6f8766bb8755f8c3b8f6badbc3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:50:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate default-jdk-builddep and correct list of packages providing dh_nativejava. --- checks/debhelper | 8 +++++--- data/fields/obsolete-packages | 4 ++++ .../debian/debian/control.in | 2 +- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/checks/debhelper b/checks/debhelper index 56bbc00..32adec2 100644 --- a/checks/debhelper +++ b/checks/debhelper @@ -120,10 +120,12 @@ while (<RULES>) { if ($dh_commands_depends->known($dhcommand)) { my $dep = $dh_commands_depends->value($dhcommand); - # Special-case default-jdk-builddep. It appears to be a sort - # of build-essential for Java applications. + # Special-case gcj-native-helper, which is a meta-package to + # pull this helper. default-jdk-builddep is obsolete, but + # we keep it for backwards compatibility, because it used to + # serve this purpose. if ($dhcommand eq 'dh_nativejava') { - $dep = "$dep | default-jdk | default-jdk-builddep"; + $dep = "$dep | gcj-native-helper | default-jdk-builddep"; } $missingbdeps{$dep} = $dhcommand; } diff --git a/data/fields/obsolete-packages b/data/fields/obsolete-packages index 9726cf0..e4f2a17 100644 --- a/data/fields/obsolete-packages +++ b/data/fields/obsolete-packages @@ -56,3 +56,7 @@ xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu xutils + +# Last seen in Squeeze +default-jdk-builddep + diff --git a/t/tests/debhelper-dh-nativejava/debian/debian/control.in b/t/tests/debhelper-dh-nativejava/debian/debian/control.in index cff247e..ccc9a46 100644 --- a/t/tests/debhelper-dh-nativejava/debian/debian/control.in +++ b/t/tests/debhelper-dh-nativejava/debian/debian/control.in @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority: extra Section: {$section} Maintainer: {$author} Standards-Version: {$standards_version} -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), default-jdk-builddep +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), gcj-native-helper Package: {$srcpkg} Architecture: {$architecture} -- 1.7.2.3