Le 02/09/2018 à 16:15, shirish शिरीष a écrit : > Now while I'm doing the nominal changes am stuck at certain points - > > a. <version>$Revision: 7831 $, $Date: 2013-06-05 21:17:15 +0100 $ > > how is the revision and time-stamp derived. If I were to guess it would be > something to do with moinmoin ?
This is a keyword expansion, a feature of CVS and SVN that Git doesn't support. With these VCS if a file contained $Revision$ it was expanded to $Revision: 1234 $ when the file was checked out. Let's ignore that for now and focus on the content. > b. In 2.2 at https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch2.en.html > > gcj and libgcj: http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ > > Classpath http://www.classpath.org. Most of the Standard classes for > Java 1.2 (except Swing and RMI) are implemented by the ClassPath > project, it tries to build an alternative to jdk's 1.2 core classes. > (NB: This was removed from Squeeze) > > Should this content be there anymore ? - guess both can be removed as > nothing of the two projects remain All references to GCJ/GIJ/GNU ClassPath should be removed, this is just History now. > I was surprised to know that gnu java which at one point was a > high-priority project was deprecated within gcc When Sun released Java under the GPL and started the OpenJDK project it lost its raison d'être. > c. In 2.4.2 I am not sure what links should be put in place of > http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html#rules and > http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/building.html http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org now maps to https://java.debian.net. > d. For https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch3.en.html > esp. the non-free java would need to pursue the launchpad ppa archive Chapter 3 is about update-java-alternatives. How does it relate to the PPA? > e. 4.5 How can I use the proprietary version of the JDK/JRE from > Oracle as a Debian package? > > This probably needs an updated answer, either we give the same link as > above i.e. > http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-in-debian.html > or maybe something else as > http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2012/02/29/java_package_replacement_of_sun_java6 > is no longer sufficient :( java-package is the supported solution for now. I wish we could also include in non-free an installer similar to webupd8.org. Emmanuel Bourg
