Re: general maintainer questions
On 26 Feb 2002, David H. Askew wrote:
> 2. I realize that jEdit is a program that is designed to run on a JVM
> that is not considered FREE by normal Debian standards... but would
> Debian provide the infastructure neccessary to maintain and distribute
> the package seing as how jEdit relies on non-free, non-packaged
> software?
If there were a JDK packaged that jedit could Depend: on, then all would be
good. It could go in contrib.
> 3. What is the status of officially including a Java 2 sdk in the
> distribution?
This seems to suggest that jedit is a Java 2 app. There's no versioning on
the java-virtual-machine metapackage, so I don't know if (eg) Kaffe supports
Java 2.
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