On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:00:15AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > So, we are late with OpenJDK for lenny. I still think lenny would > benefit from having OpenJDK. I'm proposing the following steps, > realizing that not all of them probably can be realized. > > - The current 6b11-2 package is not yet ready for migration. We will > need a -3 upload which properly will fix build issues, and adds > ports for alpha, mips, mipsel and m68k. s390 support is pending > some build issues (Bastian Blank is working on those). > > - Upload a -3, which should be a candidate for testing. If the s390 > bits are not yet ready, have an opportunity to upload a -4. > The current status can be seen in the repository. > > - At this point we'll have OpenJDK VM with a JIT (amd64, i386, sparc) > and an interpreter (alpha, armel, ia64, mips, mipsel, m68k, > powerpc, s390). The intrepreter is good for building stuff, but > runtime performance ... > > - Allow tzdata to build a tzdata-java package; the openjdk-6 is > prepared to use the data from tzdata-java (which comes in a > different file format). With this openjdk-6 doesn't have to be > updated for new timeezone data. tzdata-java is now waiting in NEW.
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