On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 03:16:17PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> (2017-06-15):
> > It sounds like openjdk-8 added two Breaks recently, one or both of
> > which are causing trouble, and none of which fix anything as bad as
> > this. So I think we should remove the Breaks on tzdata-java from
> > openjdk-8-jdk-headless, and remove the Breaks on ca-certificates-java
> > from openjdk-8-jre-headless. Would that fix the current issue?
> >
> > From what I can see #863820 is at most a normal-severity issue. Not
> > upgrading some packages is way way better than a failed upgrade.
>
> I'm currently building an updated openjdk-8 with the attached changes
> to see what the upgrade-desktop test cases would look like.
>
> Note: I've chosen to remove the “Breaks: ${jrehl:Breaks}” line from
> debian/control* so that I'm only touching these files, since d/rules
> seems to only set it to tzdata-java anyway, depending on the target
> dist.
>
> I'll report the results afterwards, but as mentioned on IRC, even if
> that looks good in the end, fewer than 2 days to become confident it
> won't regress in other cases is really short. :(
It would be really nice if we could remove the circular dependency
between openjdk-8 and ca-certificate before the release, otherwise
the stretch to buster upgrade will be a nightmare.
It always much easier to add circular dependency than to remove them.
Cheers,
Bill.
