scilab migration to testing (was: Unblocks for security fixes)

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 00:55:55 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> Le jeudi 18 novembre 2010 à 23:32 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:02:58 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:36:51 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Does asking for a rebuild/reupload of libjogl-jni under mips would be
> > > > enough ? or do I need to upload a new version of jogl ?
> > > > 
> > > I've scheduled a binNMU, let's see if that works.
> > > 
> > So that part worked, but then scilab FTBFS:
> > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=scilab;ver=5.2.2-9;arch=mips;stamp=1290100241
> Scilab FTBFS because on this build log, gcj is used while it should use
> the openjdk instead. (it won't be possible to port Scilab on gcj since
> it is using part some Java API which are not supported by gcj).
> 
> The openjdk is available for mips:
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/openjdk-6-jdk
> but it seems that default-jdk is not set up correctly.
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/default-jdk
> 
> Am I right ?
> 
> Should I report a bug on default-jdk here ?
> 
It seems late to make such a change of default jdk; I don't know if it's
a bug...  But if scilab needs openjdk anyway, should it really use
default-jdk instead of build-depending on openjdk directly?  (There's
still the option of getting the old scilab binary removed from mips.)

Cheers,
Julien
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