Re: dynamic Text in package descriptions

2011-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
gnificantly more bandwidth-efficient to download Packages files for multiple architectures. Obviously this only works correctly if descriptions are identical across architectures (which is, fortunately, mostly true). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] --

Re: Report from the Debian Java developers meeting at FOSDEM

2004-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
va Policy by Jan Schulz > > That's got time till the next debian release is out, I guess. Not an awful lot of it (assuming the 15th March date for the base freeze holds or doesn't slip too far). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: Getting Kaffe into testing, was Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.3-0.2 (powerpc source)

2004-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
because they are built for architectures for which kaffe is not under your proposal. > Better suggestions? Fix the build problems. :) Hey, it built on those architectures in the past, didn't it? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: CLASSPATH and Jikes

2002-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
(Perhaps the default could even be > determined by looking at the java alternative.) That sounds like it would work better with autobuilders, too - you could build-depend on jikes (>= foo), invoke jikes-kaffe, and expect it to work everywhere. -- Colin Watson

Re: CLASSPATH and Jikes

2002-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
(Perhaps the default could even be > determined by looking at the java alternative.) That sounds like it would work better with autobuilders, too - you could build-depend on jikes (>= foo), invoke jikes-kaffe, and expect it to work everywhere. -- Colin Watson

Re: Backtrace

2002-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:57:17PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin> The last seven uploads of jikes have been NMUs. Since > Colin> another bug (#119551) is holding up freenet-u

Re: Backtrace

2002-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:57:17PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin> The last seven uploads of jikes have been NMUs. Since > Colin> another bug (#119551) is holding up freenet-u

Re: Backtrace

2002-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
tags 123041 patch thanks On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 04:06:37AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > This is a 64-bit issue; jikes assumes that sizeof(int) == sizeof(void*), > which isn't true on alpha or ia64. Specifically, in src/ast.h it tries > to declare objects of type AstArray, whe

Re: Backtrace

2002-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
tags 123041 patch thanks On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 04:06:37AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > This is a 64-bit issue; jikes assumes that sizeof(int) == sizeof(void*), > which isn't true on alpha or ia64. Specifically, in src/ast.h it tries > to declare objects of type AstArray, whe

Re: Re: Java or C/C++

2002-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:50:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could software created using Java be released under the GPL? Yes. See http://www.gnu.org/software/java/java.html. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Java or C/C++

2002-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:50:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could software created using Java be released under the GPL? Yes. See http://www.gnu.org/software/java/java.html. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: request for bug filing on all packages uses /usr/share/java/repository

2002-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:12:29PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:43:54AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > Amid all the arguments I've lost track of exactly why > > /usr/share/java/repository causes a problem for building things. Can > > someb

Re: request for bug filing on all packages uses /usr/share/java/repository

2002-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:12:29PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:43:54AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > Amid all the arguments I've lost track of exactly why > > /usr/share/java/repository causes a problem for building things. Can > > someb

Re: request for bug filing on all packages uses /usr/share/java/repository

2001-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
jar rather than the repository, anyway, although I can't really see any particular benefits one way or the other for a standalone program like this. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Architecture question

2001-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
tions, because otherwise these > packages will never make it into testing, which means jython will > never make it into testing (which is what concerns me more). Are you sure? I believe that testing only cares about binaries being out of date on various architectures; if they simply aren&#

Re: Architecture question

2001-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
tions, because otherwise these > packages will never make it into testing, which means jython will > never make it into testing (which is what concerns me more). Are you sure? I believe that testing only cares about binaries being out of date on various architectures; if they simply aren&#

Re: STOP INCLUDING EXTERNAL JARS IN YOUR JAVA PACKAGES!

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
t; and there's no conflict. > > We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto :) The old rules don't always apply. I got the impression that Adam was upset at least partly about the legal issues. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: STOP INCLUDING EXTERNAL JARS IN YOUR JAVA PACKAGES!

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
t; and there's no conflict. > > We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto :) The old rules don't always apply. I got the impression that Adam was upset at least partly about the legal issues. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Summary of the id?as.

2001-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
a option to the java-wrapper > > to allow this, or? > > java --flavor > > I did not choose -version, as some jvms already have that. --flavor has a > a high probability of not currently being used. Confusing interaction with UK spelling. --variant? --simple-version-string? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Summary of the id?as.

2001-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
a option to the java-wrapper > > to allow this, or? > > java --flavor > > I did not choose -version, as some jvms already have that. --flavor has a > a high probability of not currently being used. Confusing interaction with UK spelling. --variant? --simple-version-stri

Re: java2-*-dummy packages rejected

2001-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
packages into non-free then ? The dummy packages could go into contrib. This means free packages depending on them would have to go into contrib too, but without a free Java 2 system they'd have to anyway so that shouldn't be a problem. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java2-*-dummy packages rejected

2001-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
gt; packages into non-free then ? The dummy packages could go into contrib. This means free packages depending on them would have to go into contrib too, but without a free Java 2 system they'd have to anyway so that shouldn't be a problem. -- Colin Watson

Re: Blackdown Java 2 copyright (j2sdk, j2se)

2001-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
ons this spring that the Blackdown folks had got explicit permission from Sun for Debian to distribute the JDK in non-free. Somebody on -java is likely to know for sure. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: j2* files from incoming

2001-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
at hosts incoming is down for maintenance, which didn't go as planned. According to Ben, it won't be back up until some time today. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: j2* files from incoming

2001-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
at hosts incoming is down for maintenance, which didn't go as planned. According to Ben, it won't be back up until some time today. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Summary of the id?as.

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
hat policy. Oh, hang on. The original post said: > * This discusses the default classpath, except the classpath that > are needed by the jvm. ... so perhaps I've missed the point. I'll get my coat. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Summary of the id?as.

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:23:35PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:08:03PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > I think there's got to be some kind of default classpath, even if it can > > be overridden, otherwise programs without a startup script require th

Re: Summary of the id?as.

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
tup script require the user to set an environment variable before they can be used (see Debian policy 10.9: "A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable defaults"). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#90243: ITP: jdk1.3 -- Java Development Kit

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
Maurizio Boriani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:09:31AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >> Maurizio Boriani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Package: wnpp >> >Severity: wishlist >> >URL: ftp://ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.a

Re: Bug#90243: ITP: jdk1.3 -- Java Development Kit

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
Maurizio Boriani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:09:31AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >> Maurizio Boriani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Package: wnpp >> >Severity: wishlist >> >URL: ftp://ftp.progsoc.uts.e