Mistaken auto-syncs from Debian unstable or experimental

[James Page]

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On 11/01/12 16:43, Colin Watson wrote:
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>> trunk) to increase performance (which is the intent of this new 
>> language feature).  However I don't think we will have good Java
>> 7 support across all architectures for Precise.
> 
> Right.  Thanks, this is why I wanted a domain expert to look at
> it.

No problem

> 
>> I've not yet found time to look if there are any runtime issues
>> with groovy 2 yet...
>> 
>> Is there any way we can easily revert this back to the 1.8.x
>> series?
> 
> Not easily, unfortunately.  The best alternatives I can offer are:
> 
> * Upload groovy 2.0.0~beta2+really1.8.5-1, which is a copy of
> 1.8.5-1. (Be careful, though, as this will satisfy
> (build-)dependencies on groovy (>= 2.0.0); this is why "revert to
> previous version" isn't a unilaterally safe option in a
> publicly-available distribution.  If there are no such dependencies
> and unlikely to be in the future then you can probably get away
> with this.)
> 
> * Upload a separate groovy1.8 and convert everything relevant to
> use that.

I think the first approach is best; I would prefer to maintain one
delta against Debian - we can then deal with the upgrade as a normal
transition once it enters unstable.

I'll do the upload today.

Cheers

James


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James Page
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