Bug#875790: fixed in scilab 6.0.1-2

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 30/05/18 09:25, Julien Puydt wrote:
> 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.

No worries. BTW the i386 java crash happens when building the documentation. So
perhaps you could restrict building the documentation to the build-indep target,
that should workaround the problem.

Cheers,
Emilio