Is java-package dead?

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

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.

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 -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

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