Bug#875790: fixed in scilab 6.0.1-2

[Julien Puydt]

Hi,

Le 29/05/2018 à 19:34, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit :
> Control: reopen -1
> Control: retitle -1 scilab: depends on openjdk-8
> 
> On Mon, 14 May 2018 21:21:44 +0200 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 May 2018 05:05:48 +0000 Julien Puydt <jpuydt at debian.org> wrote:
>>>  .
>>>    [ Emmanuel Bourg ]
>>>    * Fixed the build failure with Java 9 (Closes: #875790)
>>>  .
>>>    [ Julien Puydt ]
>>>    * Depend on unversioned tcl/tk (Closes: #803526)
>>>    * Force use of java 8 since later versions aren't supported (Closes: #875790)
>>
>> So is the build really fixed with Java 9 now? If so, why force Java 8? The build
>> is failing on i386 with Java 8, so it may be good to go back to default Java (9
>> at the moment) to attempt to fix the build.
> 
> Besides the FTBFS on i386 with openjdk-8: we are also moving to OpenJDK 11 for
> buster, and openjdk-8 will be removed from testing in due time. Thus please
> switch to openjdk 10 or 11 (or preferably to default-jdk).
> 
> This is blocking the curl transition due to the FTBFS on i386, so I'd appreciate
> some quick action if possible.

I'm a bit stuck : I took over the package and I'm trying to improve it,
but it's a complex package with big compilation times so even though I'm
working on it, progress is slow.

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