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- default-jdk-builddep transition
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- default-jdk-builddep was a package to provide helpers to compile
- class/jar files into native code, unfortunately its poorly chosen
- name lead to people thinking it was the "Right Thing" to
- Build-Depend on when maintaining a Java Package. This
- misunderstanding even got into the templates for AMs for reviewing
- New Maintainers (The T&SII follow up).
-
- These helper tools requires a special Java Development Kit and
- therefore on many architectures default-jdk-builddep would pull two
- full JDK.
-
- In order to end this confusion once and for all the Debian Java team
- decided to rename default-jdk-builddep to gcj-native-helper and
- reduce it to only pull the special JDK needed for native compilation.
-
- The replacement for default-jdk-builddep falls into one of two cases.
- If you create "gcj" packages (which contains jar files compiled into
- native shared libraries), default-jdk-builddep should be replaced by
- default-jdk AND gcj-native-helper. Otherwise you should replace it by
- default-jdk.
-
- If you are interested in the debate to do this rename, please have a
- look at:
- * http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2010/04/msg00070.html
-
- -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:55:00 +0200
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