Bonjour Daniel, * Daniel Bonniot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-04 19:48:31 +0200]:
> Szia Laszlo! Parlez-vous Hongroise? > No it doesn't, and it cannot for licensing reasons. I tought there is some kind of wrapper, which downloads SUN's J2SDK and installs it for the user; so Debian does not violates the license, still can support the users. I stand corrected. > You can still depend on j2sdk1.4 since that package is provided by sources > outside of Debian. You should add '| sun-j2sdk1.4', which is the package > automatically generated by j2se-package. (should we have this kind of > instructions in the policy?) Every bit would help I guess. The Java Policy is way too short. > What free tools did you try that did not work? Did you report bugs? I have tried kaffe and libgnumail-java, both missing classes. I definiately should try sablevm as well (any other options for a free JVM alternative?). Well, the reason I have not tried sablevm is that my package will depend on tomcat4, and that depends on kaffe but not on sablevm. For kaffe I 'reported the bug', and got the reply that the particular class I am asking for would be easy to implement -- patches are welcome. :-| About libgnumail-jar: no, I haven't filed any bugs. Should I? I am new to free java tools, I don't know if they constantly working on it, or fixing bugs mostly. > Then if there is no debian package (even outside Debian) providing an > implementation of javamail that works for your package, I don't think you > can write a proper Build-Depends. I do not know if there is a javamail package _outside_ Debian which would work. But I think all official packages in Debian should be compilable with official packages. External dependencies do not sound good. Otherwise I can make a package from javamail, but license restrictions won't let me distribute it, so I am stuck again. Also, without proper Build-Depends the package is useless, the first thing I will get are release candidate FTBFS bugs. > How many classes does libgnumail-java miss? It might be quite easy to at > least include stub classes that would allow your app to be compiled with > free tools. Well, compile would be ok, but how someone would run it? But to answer your question, I think at least 20 classes are missing, mostly com.sun.mail.iap.* . Merci, Laszlo
