Re: jdk >= 1.2

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Nicolas SABOURET wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I intend to package arkanae, a 3D role playing game written in Java and
> OpenGL. It requires GL4Java, an OpenGL binding for Java (see
> http://www.jausoft.com/gl4java.html).
> Sadly, both programs (arkanae and gl4java) require jdk >= 1.2.
> Of course, I could use blackdown's jdk and make "unofficial" packages. I
> wonder however if there is any other solution, that would lead to making
> _official_ packages (except kidnapping Sun's Pdt until they change the
> jdk licence).
> Maybe you have an idea ?

Packages in contrib are official, and can depend on packages not in debian.