On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:29:58AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > On Dec 29, 2007 6:04 PM, Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know how is working on icedtea/openjdk on Debian but AFAIK, > > there are a lot of licenses and they must be all analysed. > > doko, are you out there? Are your Ubuntu icedtea packages ready for > Debian or do they need more work? What tasks are remaining? > > > Icedtea/OpenJDK will only solve the move to main for x86 and x64 > > arches. There is a port from Gary Benson on PowerPC (only in > > interpreter mode at the moment and it's barely usable for applications > > like eclipse) but AFAIK Icedtea/OpenJDK will not run on other arches > > (maybe it can run on sparc but I'm not sure). > > IMO main/contrib is a separate issue to portability. There are plenty > of packages in main that only work on one architecture or a few of > them. The powerpc work seems to be released now BTW: > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-January/000821.html > > > > In any case it would be nice to have IcedTea in experimental at least. > > > > IceTea/OpenJDK will not break anything, it could be in unstable. > > That would be great.
I work on icedtea package currently. There are some issues taht I can hopefully sort out this week. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
