On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Why not, but the compiler for the old format isn't provided by > openjdk-8, so we'll have another issue when openjdk-7 is removed > (probably in Jessie+1). The old compiler would have to be copied into
Eh, just do that before the freeze if you don’t manage to do #5 before the freeze, and then do #5 immediately after the freeze, and do *not* copy the old compiler. On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: > That isn't all that many zones. I wonder if tz upstream would be willing > to take those zones to avoid the divergence between Java and everyone I think they do. > That would require relicensing that file to not be under the GPL, but > looking at the file I'm quite dubious it's even copyrightable. They are not copyrightable, is also the stance of upstream. In case of doubt: just describe, human-readably, what those old timezones did, and someone can write a tz definition for upstream from that. But I am sure this is not needed here. bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.11.1408150930260.23...@tglase.lan.tarent.de
