On Thursday 20 January 2000, at 19 h 25, the keyboard of Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is covered in the Java policy. According to the Java policy, many > > packages can't run with Kaffe. > > Well, this policy is a little bit outdated (from Juli 1999 IIRC) There is no expiration date. Many Debian sacred texts are much older. > - Kaffe > 1.0.5 was not available at this time at many Java programs now run with > Kaffe 1.0.5 that didn't run with 1.0.4. Two warnings: - the note about Kaffe is just a note in the Policy, as an example. The real principle is: to be in "main", your program must run without non-free software. This is just a reminder because it is already in the Debian policy and is not Java-specific. The only Java-specific thing is that you have to ensure that, IN PRACTICE, your classes run with a free Java Virtual Machine. If it doesn't, whatever the Java policy says, the program must move to contrib. - if a legal Java program does not run with kaffe, report the bug. See #51263 for an example. > And I personally don't like some > things in this policy (e.g. the naming convention for Java packages) and > it is not part of the official policy, so I'm not forced to follow it. Please do not take this as legal problem. Use common sense and I agree with David Starner's reply. Also ask yourself why Java is not used more in Debian. One of the reasons is the lack of a common policy. There are less Java packages than C ones and they are much more different!
