Hi all, I did prepare a web page to try to put as more debian-java packages in main. http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/contrib.html Introduction ------------ One of the problem of java packages in Debian is they need a non-free JVM to be build or to run. The aim of this page is to bring the more debian java packages to main. We can achieve this by building our debian-java packages with free software. I did choose for my packages to use cdbs as a build system because it's really easy and also because Stefan Gybas made a framework for ant so it takes five lines to make a package! I also choose to build my debian-java package with the latest release of kaffe (as I write these lines, it's 1:1.1.3). I did try to list all the java packages in contrib with this command line: $ export PKGS=$(grep-dctrl -s Package -s Section -s Depends\ -d -F Depends,Suggests -e "java.*-runtime|java-virtual-machine"\ /var/lib/dpkg/available|grep-dctrl -s Package -F Section contrib |\ sed -e "s/Package: //" |grep -v tomcat) so I've been able to download all the debian-sources with $ apt-get source $PKGS Debian is too good! ;) Now, I parse all the packages to see why they are in contrib and how we can change the situation. Of course you can help! By improving this page, improving the list of packages and improving the comments! We have to know why the package is in contrib?! If it's a dependency problem, we have to list them, if it does not build with free software, we need the log failure so we can forward upstream. Many thanks for your attention. Please, send all your comments to the debian-java list <debian-java@lists.debian.org>. Thanks for your attention and support and comments. -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `-
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