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

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:12:22PM +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> > 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.

I think here you are replying against keeping or dropping the NMU. FWIW,
I've tested the built VM at least with simple examples (a-la Hello,
World). Feel free to do the extra tests you think are needed and/or
suggest me the appropriate tests. ... or dcut the NMU, as you deem
appropriate. Just let me know.

> 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.

ACK.

Cheers.

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