Re: general maintainer questions
jEdit requires java2 sdk/vm 1.3 or later to run, which to my knowledge
doesn't exist in debian... aside from blackdown.org's packages ... I
couldn't think of any possible dependecies... but thats no good is it..
:(
..i don't believe Kaffe supports java 2.. maybe I'm wrong...
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 06:29, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 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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