Bug#894354: postgis-java build depends on openjdk-8-jdk-headless

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 02:23:53PM +0200, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> On 2018-03-29 14:12, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > postgis-java build depends on openjdk-8-jdk-headless, which is not
> > expected to be part of the buster release.
> > 
> > Build-Depends-Indep: default-jdk-headless,
> >                      openjdk-8-jdk-headless | java7-sdk-headless,
> > 
> > Java 7 is even in jessie, I wonder whether the second line here
> > could just be removed with default-jdk-headless already covering
> > the required JDK in all cases.
> 
> The explicit openjdk dependency exists to prevent the package being built
> with gjc on certain ports.

The package is binary-all, and the Debian binary-all autobuilders are
on amd64.

> If we have openjdk on all architectures now, and gjc is no longer used,

gcc upstream removed gcj in gcc 7, so gcj is no longer an option
for buster.

> we can change the dependency to:
> 
>  default-jdk-headless (>= 2:1.7) | java7-sdk-headless
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed