Bug#787562: jython FTBFS and jython is uninstallable because of unsatisfied (build-)dependency on libjnr-posix-java (>= 3.0.10~)

tony mancill tmancill at debian.org
Wed Jun 3 13:38:02 UTC 2015


On 06/02/2015 10:29 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Miguel Landaeta (2015-06-02 21:54:29)
>> Thanks for the report, we are aware of the issue and we are waiting for
>> FTPmaster jnr-posix approval to solve this bug and others.
> 
> thanks for the clarification.
> 
> Could you next time please hold off on doing such an upload until the reverse
> dependencies land in unstable? Having a source package that does not compile
> and a binary package that cannot be installed does not help anybody and on the
> contrary can even disrupt existing processes (as it happened with this one
> because jython is part of the transitive essential package set). I'd rather
> expect such an early upload happen to experimental instead.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> cheers, josch

Hello Josch,

First, I'm responsible for uploading jython; Miguel and Tim Potter and I
and several other members of the Java Team are trying to get a modern
version of JRuby into Debian, which requires a number of transitions.

Second, the short answer to your question is "yes."  I should have left
the package in experimental (it was there for several months), but I
thought that jnr-posix would be along shortly.

However, I'd like to understand how jython figures into the transitive
set (and why - maybe we get it out of the essential set), and how a
developer can determine this.

Looking at reverse depends:

> $ reverse-depends jython
> Reverse-Depends
> ===============
> * eclipse-pydev-data
> * electric
> * libred5-java
> * libsikuli-script-java
> * plm

There's nothing here that isn't a leaf or all but.

And for build-deps, it's not that much different.

> $ reverse-depends -b jython
> Reverse-Build-Depends-Indep
> ===========================
> * electric
> * plm
> * red5
> 
> Reverse-Build-Depends
> =====================
> * eclipse-pydev
> * libfreemarker-java
> * libmx4j-java
> * sikul

So is there a tool I can use to view the entire tree to see where jython
is required?

Thank you,
tony

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