Bug#693441: libecj-java: Newer upstream version supports Java 7

[Samuel Ward]

I would like to help, but I'm afraid I don't really understand how ecj works or 
how the Debian package is built from the sources.



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Bug#693441: libecj-java: Newer upstream version supports Java 7

[Matthias Klose]

tags 693441 + help
thanks

are you willing to work on this? Note this requires updating the GCCMain class
as well, plus checking the gcj can still be built with this new version.

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Bug#693441: libecj-java: Newer upstream version supports Java 7

[Samuel Ward]

Package: libecj-java
Version: 3.5.1-4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

There are newer versions of ECJ that include support for compiling
Java 7 source code.  It would be nice if this package could get an
upgrade.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (750, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 
'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libecj-java depends on:
ii  java-common  0.47

Versions of packages libecj-java recommends:
ii  oracle-j2sdk1.6 [java5-runtime-headless]  1.6.0+update34
ii  oracle-j2sdk1.7 [java5-runtime-headless]  1.7.0+update7

Versions of packages libecj-java suggests:
ii  ant  1.8.2-4
pn  ecj  
pn  libecj-java-gcj  

-- no debconf information


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