Kaffe (java) for your arch [Was: Re: 185 Packages that look orphaned]
Goswin von Brederlow
brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Jan 28 16:40:02 2004
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I'm forwarding this to the ports lists in the hope someone there is
intrested in helping out.
For all of you java friends out there, kaffe needs your spare time to
get ready for sarge. Feel free to pitch in and help. See below.
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To: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Cc: Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org,
pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: 185 Packages that look orphaned
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Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org> writes:
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>>About every Java packages, they are not going in contrib because most
>>depends on j2sdk1.(3|4) so, they are in contrib. THEY ARE NOT BROKEN!
>>They just need a non-free JDK to build or to run.
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> Which means they need manual intervention to get pushed into sarge. It
> just needs to be done where appropriate. A bunch of the java related
> packages maintainer replied that they are waiting on sablevm or
> kaffe. Maybe that will be ready for sarge.
There is quite a bit of work happening on this here:
http://java.debian.net/index.php/MovingJavaToMain
feel free to jump right in.
Oh, and kaffe could need some interest from DDs on the platforms on
which it doesn't build atm (alpha, arm, m68k, mips, mipsel, sparc, ia64,
parisc). There are some ways to work around that, but in general, it'd
be great (for getting more java packages into main) if some interested
developers on those architectures picked up the ball. The kaffe.org
upstream simply lacks experienced developers on all those platforms at
the time being, to be able to fix them all.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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MfG
Goswin
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