Bug#724455: java-package: No packaging method found for ARM hardfloat (7u40 or 8ea)

[Trevor Robinson]

Package: java-package
Version: 0.53
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

java-package does not support newer Oracle Java releases for ARM that support VFP/hard-float, such as:

Detected Debian build architecture: armhf
Detected Debian GNU type: arm-linux-gnueabihf
No matching packaging method was found for jdk-7u40-linux-arm-vfp-hflt.tar.gz.

(Finally having a hard-float JDK is very important on hard-float systems. Previously, all JNI modules had to be built against soft-float compatibility libraries.)

I previously created a patch against 0.50+nmu2 to add this support: https://gist.github.com/trevorr/4773837

There have been substantial changes since then, but I will attempt to rework the patch and submit it.

Thanks,
Trevor Robinson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers raring-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'raring-updates'), (500, 'raring-security'), (500, 'raring-proposed'), (500, 'raring'), (100, 'raring-backports')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages java-package depends on:
ii  debhelper   9.20120909ubuntu1
ii  fakeroot    1.18.4-2ubuntu1
ii  libasound2  1.0.25-4ubuntu3.1
ii  libx11-6    2:1.5.0-1ubuntu1.1
ii  unzip       6.0-8ubuntu1

Versions of packages java-package recommends:
ii  dpkg-dev  1.16.10ubuntu1
ii  gcc       4:4.7.3-1ubuntu10

Versions of packages java-package suggests:
ii  openjdk-6-jre  6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.13.04.2
pn  openjdk-7-jre  <none>

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