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Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux



On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:52:03PM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
>> [ ... ] not
>> to mention the serious problems of the port's viability implied by things
>> like the lack of Java support

> gcj and openjdk work fine in Fedora. AFAIK, Gentoo also has Java for  
> Alpha. So it shouldn't be to hard to get it running on Debian!

Heh - interestingly, gcj-4.3 builds have been reenabled on alpha in Debian
as of January 31 - so only in unstable, too late for the lenny release.  But
is there good reason to think this will remain in good shape throughout the
squeeze development cycle?

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com                                     vorlon@debian.org


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