Path: csiph.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Andreas Tille Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Re: Backporting antlr4 Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 15:30:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-java@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Wed Dec 2 14:29:57 2015 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.345 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.345] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/18939 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20151202142941.GJ28902@an3as.eu Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 37 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: debian-backports@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:29:41 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20151202142941.GJ28902@an3as.eu> X-Original-References: <20151202114646.GC28902@an3as.eu> <565EE07D.90600@apache.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:8620 Hi Emmanuel, uhmmm, this sounds pretty complex to me if there are even chances to break something. May be I finally need to provide users with a testing chroot or so to use the programm (Beast2, to be finalised). :-( Thanks for the hints anyway Andreas. On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:13:49PM +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 2/12/2015 12:46, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > I would need libantlr4-runtime-java to backport a Debian Med package to > > Jessie and thus I'm interested in backporting antlr4. Is there anybody > > who might have this on the todo list or should I give it a try? > > Hi Andreas, > > Backporting antlr4 implies backporting antlr 3.5.2 and stringtemplate 4 > as well. The tricky part is the circular dependency between > stringtemplate 4 and antlr 3.5.2. > > If you are going to backport antlr 3.5.2 the easiest solution would be > to cheat a bit and build it in an environment where > libstringtemplate4-java is already is installed. Once you have antlr > 3.5.2 for Jessie you can rebuild stringtemplate4. > > Also note that antlr 3.5.2 will break jython in Jessie (it has to be > switched to antlr3.2 to preserve the compatibility). > > Emmanuel Bourg > > -- http://fam-tille.de