libxalan2-java to main - second take

Arnaud Vandyck avdyk@debian.org
Mon Mar 21 06:39:03 2005


Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:19:17 +0100, 
Wolfgang Baer <WBaer@gmx.de> wrote: 

> Hi all,
>
> I spent friday night to bring libxalan2-java to main. I also updated
> the MovingJavaToMain wiki page. If libxalan2-java is moved to main there
> are only some uploads left to move tomcat4 to main.

[...]

> I think we can believe that either of the following is true after sarge:
> - gcj-3.4 will stay in debian
> - one of the free vms implements -Djava.endorsed.dirs (gcj is working
>    on that already for the in this case needed w3c packages)
>
> A new upstream release of xalan in the future will probably use the
> DOM Level 3 interfaces already and therefore could be build with free
> tools.
>
> Comments or Suggestions ?

No suggestion, just a comment, good job! ;-)

I suppose xalan will have be working on DOM Level 3 soon...

Cheers,

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