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

[Olivier Sallou]

On 07/10/2013 09:40 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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. 
There are a few of course, ut with different APIs that may highly impact
the code.
 We could however have a look

Olivier


>  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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