On 09/13/2017 02:19 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > retitle 870669 move gcj-jdk from Build-Depends to Build-Depends-Indep > tags 870669 + patch > severity 870669 normal > user helm...@debian.org > usertags 870669 + rebootstrap > thanks > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 03:14:48PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote: >> It would be nice if the Build-Depends on gcj-jdk could be moved to >> Build-Depends-Indep. (I did recently see notifications that gcj will >> be going away in Debian soon. But even if you switch over to using >> default-jdk, that would still create a build dependency cycle since >> openjdk-8 Build-Depends on libcups2-dev also.) > > I second that. The gcj-jdk dependency also breaks cross compilation and > moving it to Build-Depends-Indep significantly simplifies debian/rules > as the attached patch demonstrates. In particular, it removes all those > different(!) architecture lists. > > Though I'd much rather see libidn go. Most rdeps but hesiod have moved > on to libidn2-0.
Just FYI. There are some packages using the stringprep functionality of libidn. This has no replacement in libidn2. We (libidn2 upstream maintainers) have a libprecis (for PRECIS[1] implementation) in mind. PRECIS replaces the IDNA 2003 stringprep functionality. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7564 With Best Regards, Tim
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