Bug#199673: Time to revisit this...

[Arnaud Vandyck]

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Mark Howard <mh344@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:45:59AM +0100, Arnaud wrote:
>> I think xalan2 uses internal sun.* classes and it's difficult to have it
>> built with (say) kaffe or another free jvm. Also, note that the kaffe
>> release in Debian is 1.1.1 and upstream is 1.1.3 with a lot of
>> improvments! So maybe it will be possible to build xalan2 with kaffe in
>> the next releases.
> Why does it take so long to get kaffe in Debian always? It just keeps
> coming up as a show stopper. If we're trying to get Java accepted in the
> open source community, shouldn't we be making sure we always have the
> latest free JVM releases?=20

Sure. Ean told on debian-java he will upload kaffe 1.1.3 soon. But this
is another point.

>> IMHO you can close #213765 and #210474 and move gjdoc to contrib to
>> remove #199673.
>
> I'd prefer to keep the first two open until 0.6 moves to sarge. (they
> were created to make it move to sarge (1<2 rc bugs), but that didn't
> seem to work.

I don't think it's working and there is no reason to do that because we
will not have a freeze before a month or two so... so I think you can
close them ;)

>> If you have some time, you can try to get gjdoc working with libxt-java
>> (and gjdoc will be back in main), or you wait for a week or two for me
>> to merge libxmlj and gnujaxp ;)... or maybe three weeks or a month ;)
>
> I will try libxt-java tomorrow. If it's not easy to do, I will move
> gjdoc to contrib :( and open an important bug saying it should be in
> main.

Come on Mark, it's not so important to have gjdoc in contrib for a month
or two, don't file an important bug because it will not be possible for
this release to go to testing!

Maybe file a wishlist if you really want users to be informed, or write
a note on debian/README.Debian.

Cheers,

=2D-=20
Arnaud

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