[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#735557: transition: octave3.8

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:57:51 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Unfortunately octave 3.8 failed to build on kfreebsd-* and sparc so far.
> I think it is java-related, because the default java implementation
> changed on those arches since our last upload to experimental. I'm
> investigating on the porterboxes.

Sounds like a reasonable theory, although the error looks different
from previous java-related failures.

The intent of depending on default-{jdk,jre} is to allow
interoperability with OpenJDK 6 or 7 (or 8), or Oracle Java if users
are so inclined. I haven't seen Octave work with gcj yet, I think I
tried for myself and failed on amd64 some months ago. I guess there is
no simpler way to express a dependency on default-{jdk,jre} as long as
it's not gcj, but that's essentially what we will need to maintain in
control and rules.

-- 
mike