Re: Possibility of packaging JDK 1.3?
On 08-Mar-2001 Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 March 2001 16:00, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote:
>>
>> Isn't it better to add a simple line to the /etc/apt/sources.list?
>>
>> deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian potato non-free
>> works for me.
>
> I haven't tested it, and it doesn't matter. Thanks for the link, since it is
> nice to have a JDK packages for Debian, but as long as it isn't in non-free
> (it can't be in main), it wouldn't be right to declare dependencies on it.
> This would in turn mean, that if I were to file an ITP on those Java-packages
> I would love to see in Debian, they would be partly-broken, since they'd have
> no way to depend on the JDK.
>
> Who made the deb? And is the person willing to maintain it?
Package: j2re1.3
Status: deinstall ok config-files
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/misc
Installed-Size: 34476
Maintainer: Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>
I'd rather use IBM's JRE/JDK - I had no luck running Blackdown's. (it can't
even run java -version, it segfaults no matter how I run it)
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