I noticed your NMU a while back and regret that I haven't had time to contact you. I must say, firstly, that I am quite annoyed that you felt compelled to make a NMU upload without first contacting me. While I have perhaps not been optimally responsive I believe that I have kept my kaffe installs fairly current. I recently fielded a number of other bug complaints against my 1.0.b4 release that turned out to be operator error.
Furthermore, your version number "1.0.b4-19990804" is considerably larger than my recent upload of "1.0.b4-2". Thanks to your erroneous upload, I will be forced to go to a "1:1.0.b4-3" or "1.0.b4.1-1" convention, which sucks. So, before you decide to go fixing the situation any further try communicating a little. By the way, just to let you know. I am actively tracking the Kaffe development and have built packages against both the "jit3" overhaul that Tim is working on as well as examining the impact of the as yet unreleased pthread improvements. I have not uploaded these to potato because I didn't see that they represented an improvement in stability over the 1.0b4 release. E On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 12:57:37PM -0400, Mike Goldman wrote: > I've noticed that a lot of bugs filed against kaffe have remained open for a > long time. If you'd like, I'd be glad to adopt kaffe. I maintain jikes, > which is now available in main, but if users are practically required to use > jdk then jikes would have to be moved to contrib (as jdk is non-free). > Thus, I'm very concerned to ensure that Debian has a complete working free > Java implementation, including both compiler and virtual machine. > > Please take note that I did an NMU some time back, replacing kaffe with a b4 > snapshop as the b3 would crash immediately on startup (at least on potato). -- ___________________________________________________________________ Ean Schuessler Director of Strategic Weapons Systems Novare International Inc. A Devices that Kill People company --- Some or all of the above signature may be a joke
