Comments regarding bsh2_2.0b2-1_powerpc.changes

[Wolfgang Baer]

Hi all,

Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
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> Joerg Jaspert <ftpmaster@debian.org> wrote: 
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>>Hi Maintainer,
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> Hi Joerg, Hi all,
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>>why is this packaged as a seperate bsh2 package?
>>Why not just as a new upstream version of bsh?
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> We had a discussion about this but I can't find it in the
> archives... There was a compatibility problem. bsh1 (aka bsh) is the
> stable release and bsh2 is still beta but widely used and needed for
> another package.
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> Maybe Wolfgang rememeber our discussion.

Well, there are several api removals. However I am not sure if they
were used by external projects using bsh at all.

Currently, three packages require beanshell either as runtime or
build-depends: jmeter, jdee (debian name jde ??) and libjfreereport-java

According to upstream changelog for jdee they switched in a newer
upstream version to bsh2.0 so there should be no problem at all, if
the packages gets updated.

Current jfreereport-java comes with the old bsh in the download and
jmeter doesn't state anything on its pages or in the downloads.

 From a quick test:
libjfreereport-java and jmeter at least compile against beanshell 2.0.

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> Wolfgang, can we replace package bsh2 as bsh? Maybe upload it to
> experimental?

Well I think so - I will prepare a new upload.

@ftpmasters - please remove bsh2 from new queue
and sorry for the noise !

Wolfgang