Bug#537290: classpath-common, gcj-jdk: Conflicting file /usr/share/man/man1/gappletviewer.1.gz

[Matthias Klose]

reassign 537290 classpath-common
thanks

No, there's nothing wrong with gcj-jdk. It defines a conflict with the current 
classpath-common. What needs to be done: update classpath to 0.98, build cacao 
using the new classpath, then decide what to do with the tools which are both 
built by gcj-jdk and classpath, if we want to avoid the conflict. 
classpath/cacao should at least provide something like /usr/lib/jvm/<something> 
and provide alternatives as other JVM's do.

Maybe it is a help to provide a new cacao-source source package just building 
the cacao-source binary package, which then is then used by classpath and 
openjdk-6 to build the cacao runtime.

If nobody is interested in classpath, then we maybe should remove it.

   Matthias

On 16.07.2009 14:10, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Package: classpath-common, gcj-jdk
> Severity: serious
>
> classpath-common and gcj-jdk both have the file
> /usr/share/man/man1/gappletviewer.1.gz.  It seems gcj-jdk tried to "fix" the
> issue using a versioned conflict with classpath-common; however, that makes
> cacao's Build-Depends unsatisfiable as it Build-Depends on both classpath-
> common and default-jdk-builddep (at least on !alpha).
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to handle this as an alternative, since gcj uses
> classpath libraries anyway?