Bug#529872: kaffe: diff for NMU version 2:1.1.8-5.3

[Michael Koch]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:47:08PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:28:43PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > Many thanks in advance,
> 
> BTW, I forgot to mention, it is of course totally up to you to decide
> whether let my delayed NMU flow in or not. I doubt it will do any harm,
> so I would personally let it go, but you might know reasons why you
> prefer to stop it (note that also the 2 previous kaffe versions have
> been NMUed).
> 
> Do you have any specific showstopper for filing a removal request RoM
> right ahead?

The only showstopper I can think is that the built kaffe VM might not work.
I remember problems when a) gcc and gcj ha different major versions
or b) gcc was > 4.2 due to stricter aliasing rules. I dont know if these
problems still apply.

We dont filed a RoM yet because there are still some packages tied to kaffe
and not all are maintained by the pkg-java-maintainers. So this needs some
coordination before we tell ftp-master to remove kaffe for real.


Cheers,
Michael