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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:25:54AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> 
> 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

My suggestion would be to talk with upstream of those projects.  My main
concern into jai-core was for dcm4chee and they are providing also
Debian packages on their side:

  http://cdmedicpacsweb.sourceforge.net/CDMEDIC_PACS_WEB.html

Perhaps it makes sense to talk to these people.  I'd prefer if some Java
knowledged person would do the first steps (and also CC debian-med list)
but if there is no volunteer I might start the initial contact which I
would like to be backed up by some Java adicted people if it comes to
technical details.
 
Kind regards

      Andreas.

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