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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le vendredi 19 novembre 2010 à 01:24 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> 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? 
Probably not.
>  (There's still the option of getting the old scilab binary removed from mips.)
It is no big deal if Scilab is not available under mips. If it is ok
with you, we could go in this direction.

Sylvestre