info request about p2p framework (fwd)

2003-09-02 Thread MJ Ray
Stefano Maffulli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked me the following question, after being asked about Java peer-to-peer software. I will mention bittorrent to him as something to look into. I don't know the answer to the jxta part, so I'd appreciate it if anyone on debian-java could cc him a reply.

Java and testing release

2003-10-03 Thread MJ Ray
Hi all, I was just reading the bug list email and I spotted two java packages are marked for removal from testing. I don't really use java much myself these days, so I thought I'd wave them at this list. orp is being removed because of a bug that looks quite fully diagnosed at http://bugs.deb

info request about p2p framework (fwd)

2003-09-02 Thread MJ Ray
Stefano Maffulli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked me the following question, after being asked about Java peer-to-peer software. I will mention bittorrent to him as something to look into. I don't know the answer to the jxta part, so I'd appreciate it if anyone on debian-java could cc him a reply.

Java and testing release

2003-10-03 Thread MJ Ray
Hi all, I was just reading the bug list email and I spotted two java packages are marked for removal from testing. I don't really use java much myself these days, so I thought I'd wave them at this list. orp is being removed because of a bug that looks quite fully diagnosed at http://bugs.debi

Bug#365408: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Drop java*-runtime/compiler, create classpath-jre/jdk and java-jre/jdk

2006-05-18 Thread MJ Ray
Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The major question is about replacing java1-runtime, java1-compiler, > java2-runtime and java2-compiler virtual packages by classpath-jre, > classpath-jdk for free java implementation and java-jre and java-jdk for > non-free implementations. More informations on

Bug#365408: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Drop java*-runtime/compiler, create classpath-jre/jdk and java-jre/jdk

2006-05-22 Thread MJ Ray
Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MJ Ray a €crit : > [...] > > A virtual package name is a functional label, not a product name. > > Java is the name of an island and a natural language too. > > I'm surprised if Sun can prevent use of a word in this way. >