Bug#814167: lwjgl: (Build-)Depends on OpenJDK 7

[Markus Koschany]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 21:36:31 -0500 Michael Gilbert <mgilbert at debian.org>
wrote:
> > I have switched the build-dependency to default-jdk and changed
> > JAVA_HOME in debian/rules accordingly. However the package FTBFS with
> > OpenJDK 8. I guess packaging the latest upstream release would be the
> > best option.
> 
> 2.9.3 is supposed to support building without ant.  I looked at it a
> while ago, and it isn't quite that simple.
> 
> lwjgl3 is also available, but it has a huge dependency stack with
> almost none of it in Debian yet.
> 
> I have less interest in lwjgl now than I used to, and I may not be
> able to find the time to work on it.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Mike

I had a quick look at lwjgl3. It seems the API has been declared stable
and lwjgl2 will be retired in favor of lwjgl3. I will try to package
version 3. There are no reverse-dependencies for lwjgl, so the risk of
breaking something is for once quite small.

Regards,

Markus

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