Re: Java Policy Question

1999-09-11 Thread Julio
> > 117v2 is based on Sun's JDK-1.1.7B. 117v3 basically is 117v2+some > swing mnemonic bug fixes. The reason that potato still uses v2 is > that it is a real glibc-2.1 build, we've never released a glibc-2.1 > version of v3. > Anyhow, 1.1.8 will be released soon. Any plans to release a debia

Re: Java Policy Question

1999-09-10 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: Stephane> On Friday 10 September 1999, at 10 h 2, the keyboard of Stephane> David Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> a) often need newer versions than have been packaged eg we had problems >> with jdk1.1.7 and are now using jdk1.1.7b which is n

Re: Java Policy Question

1999-09-10 Thread Paul Reavis
David Warnock wrote: > > Stephane (sorry no accent on the e), > > I have not been following the discussions on the policy very closely but > I have a query. > > We are developing java applications on Debian. But we are not using the > standard debian packages for jdk, jre or jikes. The reason is

Re: Java Policy Question

1999-09-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 10 September 1999, at 10 h 2, the keyboard of David Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) often need newer versions than have been packaged eg we had problems > with jdk1.1.7 and are now using jdk1.1.7b which is not packaged in > potato. IMHO, this should be a bug/wishlist against th

Java Policy Question

1999-09-10 Thread David Warnock
Stephane (sorry no accent on the e), I have not been following the discussions on the policy very closely but I have a query. We are developing java applications on Debian. But we are not using the standard debian packages for jdk, jre or jikes. The reason is that we a) often need newer version