Bug#290228: why is ant in contrib ?

[Arnaud Vandyck]

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severity 290228 wishlist
tags 290228 + wontfix
thanks

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:51:40 +0100,=20
Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> wrote:=20

>   Hello !
>
>   I was wondering why ant is in contrib. True enough, it can depend on
> sun or blackdown java. Still, it does work fine with kaffe, which is
> purely free software !
>
>   My guess is that it should live in main, along with it's doc. What
> do you think about it ??

  This has been addressed a lot of time so I leave the bug open but it's
a wishlist and won't be resolved at the moment.

  You can find libant1.6-java which is free. Yes, there is no script to
launch it but you can copy the contrib script to launch it.

  Ant will be completely in main when the splash screen and sound
functionalities will compile with free JP's (Java Platform).

  We also have a little problem with the javadoc tool at the moment
which has been solved upstream but not yet in Debian.

  Thanks for your interest,

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