Bug#296205: support for ppc 1.3.1 packages

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:27:07PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> Jeroen,
> ~    I subscribed to the Blackdown list and will pose the questions.  I
> don't expect much, given that they currently only list two mirrors for
> all of North America, and one of them (ftp.tux.org) doesn't seem to
> work.  Here is my understanding of the question(s) for the Blackdown
> team; please comment on it and then I will send on whatever we arrive at:
> 
> 1.) Is the Blackdown Java Linux team planning to distribute a Debian
> package for the recently-released PowerPC 1.3.1 JDK and JRE[0]?  Is
> Blackdown open to Debian packages for these items built from the Debian
> Java Packaging project[1]?
> 
> 2.) What is the outlook for mirrors of Blackdown offerings?  The current
> list[2] is rather sparse and some mirrors listed prove unreliable and
> quite slow.  Is Blackdown open to assistance with enhancing the mirror
> infrastructure?
> 
> [0] -
> http://www.mail-archive.com/java-linux@java.blackdown.org/msg15744.html
> [1] - http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/
> [2] - http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java-linux-d2.html

Sounds fine, feel free to go ahead and ask.

--Jeroen

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