[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#715530: jai-core: Please build explicitly with OpenJDK 6

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Niels,

I perfectly agree that we should not try to keep OpenJDK-6 alive for
ages.  However, jai-core is packaged as precondition for other packages
that are quite important (for Debian Med).  The problem is that as you
probably know all these Java programs just include a jai-core.jar which
is unacceptable for a package in main.  So we tried to package this code
that is orphaned since sic years if you look at their SVN

   https://java.net/projects/jai-core/sources/svn/show

The question ist now, whether we as in Debian are able to maintain this
code (which also has a non-free license (JRL)) or whether there is some
replacement.  I simply can not believe that there is no free library for
Java to do image operations.  Otherwise our chances to package our final
targets in medical imaging are close to zero.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 08:56:43AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not the maintainer, but I think this might not be the best
> solution.  We want to get rid of OpenJDK-6 in Debian (in Jessie), so
> this is at best a temporary solution.
>   I would highly recommend porting the package to (also) work with
> OpenJDK-7 instead.
> 
> ~Niels

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