Sorry if it's already been replied, I'm not up-to-date... Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes: > Hi, Hi, > I looked through the differences between testing and unstable and > picked out everything older than 100 days. Reasons why those packages > are not in testing are: > > - non-free / contrib packages nobody tried to compile > - FTBFS or RC bugs > - possibly failure of the testing script to detect it > - other packages hold you back (get involved in those other packages) > > > Noone has cared enough about these packages to get them compiled, > fixed or pushed into sarge so I am assuming the packages don't have a > caring maintainer or fan community. Ergo they should be orphaned. About every Java packages, they are not going in contrib because most depends on j2sdk1.(3|4) so, they are in contrib. THEY ARE NOT BROKEN! They just need a non-free JDK to build or to run. > If you maintain one of thses packages then tell me (including the > names of packages you maintain) during the next week. If you are using > one of these packages and could maintain (or NMU some fixes) you > should contact the maintainer and me to work things out. If I hear > nothing about a package soon I will start with the oldest and do a few > packages every day. If you can make the one I'll point you, come one, go ahead! > argouml At the moment, argouml is 0.14. It's the latest stable release of the software and stuck in unstable because it needs j2sdk1.(3|4). If you wanna write some of the Swing classes to fill the 'classpath' project gaps, feel free to do it. > ibm-jdk1.1-installer Isn't it marked REMOVE? I think we already have some discussions about it and IBM does not provide this jdk. > jikes-contrib should be resolved > commons-beanutils jetty libjcommon-java libjfreechart-java > libjfreereport-java libpixie-java libstruts1.1-java I think for some, it's a j2sdk problem and if not, they depends on java packages that are stuck by the non-free jdk. > saxon-catalog I'll be working on next week, I'm talking with Mark. But please. We do read the lists!.. Do not mail everyone! Also, personally, I have a lot of work at the moment, but you can notice that I'm moving every packages to my debian email address. Only libgnujaxp-java (which I'm also working on upstream) and argouml do use my work address. Regards, -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `-
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