Java build-dependency

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:55:07AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 07:35:30PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>On 13/07/10 18:40, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 04:27:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>>In csound, we build depend on default-jdk-builddep, which is wrong 
>>>>(as per /usr/share/doc/java-common/README.gcj-native-transition).
>
>>>If it is possible to build against GCJ (even if not preferred) then I 
>>>was told recently that it is available for all arches now so we 
>>>should be able to ship our code for all arches too.
>>
>>Indeed, default-jdk seems to be available for all archs. And csound 
>>used to build just fine with gcj when there was no openjdk.
>>
>>I will remove the lookup and the script, then.
>
>Sounds good.
>
>I suggest we credit Niels Thykier for this change.  He is the one 
>pointing out to me that GCJ is now available on all archs, when we (and 
>others, including Zacchiroli) met for a beer in Copenhagen 2 weeks ago.
>
>Niels ia a nice guy from Denmark working with Java (obviously). He is 
>currently in the NM queue, I believe.

...what I mean is adding to the changelog entry itself a trailing 
"Thanks to Niels Thykier." (not adding [Niels Thykier] above the entry 
as that indicates he did the actual packaging change which is false).


  - Jonas

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