Is java-package dead?

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 04:08:44AM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> I just noticed there's not been any updates to java-package
> either in Debian or the svn tree, since late last year.
> 
> Meanwhile, bugs are accumulating in the BTS, and neither the
> current IBM Java 5 release nor Java 6 prerelease are supported,
> although for Java5 it looks like a simple renaming is all that's
> needed.
> 
> Is the issue just that java-package is no longer interested to the
> original maintainers, with the admission of Sun's JDK/JRE to non-free?
> 
> Or is it felt that the Java runtimes, sdks and classes in the
> archive are now good enough that even platforms without a Sun
> JDK/JRE are sufficiently supported?
> 
> If it's the former, I'd be willing to put some time into updating
> java-package, as long as it's not going to simply languish as a
> patch in the BTS...
> 
> (If it's the latter, I'd be interested to know if anyone's run up
> ColdFusion MX J2EE with one of the free JVMs on tomcat5.5? It's giving
> me some insolence at the moment. ^_^)
> 
> Feel free to CC me, I'm not subscribed to this list.

I uploaded java-package 0.29 to unstable yesterday. Feel free to report
bugs against it for thinsgs that doesn't work.


Cheers,
Michael
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