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Bug#982085: Usage of language specific profiles in build dependencies

From	Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.java, linux.debian.devel
Subject	Bug#982085: Usage of language specific profiles in build dependencies
Date	2021-02-11 11:00 +0100
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On 2/11/21 10:40 AM, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11-02-2021 10:16, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> These dependencies should look like:
>>
>>   default-jdk [!hppa !hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-any]
>>
>> or
>>
>>   default-jdk [alpha amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ia64 m68k mips64el mipsel
>> powerpc ppc64 ppc64el riscv64 s390x sh4 sparc64 x32]
>>
>> It's also ok to use something like
>>
>>   default-jdk [!hppa !hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-any] <!nojava>
>>
>> to be able to build with the nojava profile.  I also see this used in many mono
>> related build dependencies.
>>
>> Having such build dependencies in a package that is a required package for
>> almost everything isn't helpful.
> 
> Maybe a very stupid solution would be to have default-jdk be available
> on all architectures, but just not pull in anything? IIUC that would
> lead to build failures (because code that really needs the jdk will
> FTBFS) but it avoids busywork for maintainers that are not involved in
> bootstrapping java. Machine time is cheap, volunteer time is not.

Seriously?  We didn't have any changes to the java architectures for the past
three years.  Calling a one time change "busywork"?

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Bug#982085: Usage of language specific profiles in build dependencies Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2021-02-11 10:30 +0100
  Bug#982085: Usage of language specific profiles in build dependencies Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2021-02-11 10:50 +0100
    Bug#982085: Usage of language specific profiles in build dependencies Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2021-02-11 11:00 +0100
    Bug#982085: Usage of language specific profiles in build dependencies Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2021-02-11 19:40 +0100

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