Bug#917702: jruby FTBFS with openjdk-9

[Markus Koschany]

Hi,

Am 25.02.19 um 19:40 schrieb Miguel Landaeta:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 08:39:48PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
>> JRuby is a mess. I guess we "just" need to package the latest upstream
>> release to fix the FTBFS bugs. Nobody felt like doing that in the past
>> twelve months, so I think it is unrealistic to believe we can make it
>> happen within one week. Of course if the release team can be convinced
>> to accept a new upstream release there might be additional time left.
> 
> I agree, jruby is a mess, mostly because of me since I didn't have
> almost any time during this release cycle to work on it.
> 
> I think jruby should be dropped from buster and a new libspring-java
> upload should be prepared shortly, to disable jruby support in it.
> 
> It's not realistic to think that a new upstream release for jruby can
> be prepared in a week and that will work to be well supported during
> the next stable release life cycle.
> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel.

The FTBFS bug got fixed yesterday. I should complain more often. Andrej
uploaded version 9.1.17 to unstable. This is not the latest one but I
guess better than nothing? The original bug has not been closed yet.
Andrej, can we close it now and Debian bug #917702 too?

Regards,

Markus



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