Bug#827280: jython: Jython 2.7.0 released 2015-05, package should be updated

[Gilles Filippini]

Gilles Filippini a écrit le 11/12/2016 à 15:40 :
> Emmanuel Bourg a écrit le 11/12/2016 à 00:02 :
>> Le 10/12/2016 à 14:56, Gilles Filippini a écrit :
>>
>>> It's too late for stretch, because it would trigger a transition.
>>> Anyway, I've made a package for release 2.7.0.
>>> Emmanuel, permission to upload to experimental?
>>
>> Hi Gilles, I don't give permissions, you don't need it actually, but I'm
>> happy to give some advices.
> 
> Thanks. I asked in case you were working on this release too.
> 
>> What is the level of compatibility between jython 2.5 and 2.7? There
>> aren't many package using jython, so if you have the version 2.7 ready I
>> wouldn't mind if it was uploaded to unstable. And if the transition is
>> too difficult we could upload a new jython-2.7 package, that would be
>> less disruptive.
> 
> AFAICT the compatibility level is good: I've tested it against sikulix.
> *But* this is Java, and some buildtime and runtime java dependencies
> were changed and might cause FTBFS or runtime breakage to reverse
> dependencies du to broken classpath. It does to at least sikulix, plm,
> and monkeyrunner.
> 
> Hence I'd rather upload to experimental.

OK, uploaded to experimental and git pushed, so you can get a hand on
it. If you think the r-dependecies are easy to fix we should be able to
upload to unstable. But we're short in time.

Thanks,

_g.


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