> Stephen (jdk (yes, all of them) maintainer) Am I missing something here? AFAICT, alternative runtimes such as kaffe, orp and the IBM JVM, as well as alternative compilers such as jikes, the kaffe compiler and gcj, are all maintained by other people. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places here, or perhaps you're working on these behind the scenes.
Anyway, I'm not trying to be difficult, but it's precisely to support future progress by these alternative environments that I'm all for providing a nice generic java2 dependency mechanism in debian. Ben.