[RFC] Debian Java Announcement for Sarge

[Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org>]

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Hi Debian J*v* people,

I think we have to make an announcement about debian-java in Sarge: what
is the status java in Debian, how many packages we moved to main, what
are the changes from Woody etc.

0° Introduction (I forget to make one... any idea?);
1° Status of the JVM's from Woody to Sarge;
2° Java packages (libs and apps);
3° Packages that move from contrib to main;
4° Debian Java Maintainers;
5° Future;
6° Conclusion.

Thanks for your comments about the organization of the document.

I think we can publish this mail on the wiki and work on it, then put it
in the alioth's cvs:
/cvsroot/pkg-java: create a docs dir with an announces dir, and then a
file we can call DebianJavaInSarge.txt or something.

0° Introduction



1° Status of the JVM's from Woody to Sarge

   - new:
     + sablevm
     + jamvm
     + I think I forget some...
   - updated:
     + gcj/gij (3.0 -> 3.3 and 3.4)
     + kaffe (1.0.5e -> 1.1.5)
   - removed:
     + kissme
     + orp

2° Java packages (libs and apps)

   - new:
     + antlr
     + batik
     + bcel
     + checkstyle
     + classpath
     + fop
     + gjdoc
     + mysqlconnector
     + libant (in main)
     + rhino
     + velocity
     + lot of important libs
     + lot of jakarta libs (and jakarta-commons libs)
   - update:
     + ant (1.4.1 -> 1.6.2)
     + bsh (1.1alpha5 -> 1.3.0)
     + postgresql jdbc driver (7.2 -> 7.4.7)
     + tomcat4 (4.0.3 -> 4.1.31)
   - removed:
     + cocoon
     + libservlet2.2 (replaced by libservlet2.3)
     + xml-soap
     + log4j (replaced by log4j1.2)

3° Packages that move from contrib to main

    1. libgnuinet-java
    2. libxerces2-java
    3. javacc
    4. libcommons-collections-java
    5. liblog4j1.2-java
    6. gjdoc
    7. libsaxpath-java
    8. logkit
    9. libjdom1-java
   10. libcommons-lang-java
   11. libcommons-beanutils-java
   12. libcommons-logging-java
   13. libcommons-digester-java
   14. libcommons-jexl-java
   15. libcommons-discovery-java
   16. libcommons-pool-java
   17. libcommons-dbcp-java
   18. libcommons-cli-java
   19. libcommons-validator-java
   20. libcommons-jxpath-java
   21. libcommons-fileupload-java
   22. libservlet2.3-java
   23. libbcel-java
   24. libjsch-java
   25. libswt-gtk-3.1-java
   26. checkstyle
   27. rhino
   28. libjdepend-java
   29. libgnujmi-java
   30. libmx4j-java
   31. coco-java
   32. werken.xpath
   33. libcommons-modeler-java
   34. libcommons-daemon-java
   35. libpgjava
   36. libmysql-java
   37. velocity

   I'd like to thank the excellent work of the Free GNU/Classpath
   Community on the Free VM's.

4° Debian Java Maintainers

   One of the best thing we have in Debian is Alioth! Many thanks to
   those who made the project possible and who maintain it.

   Stefan Gybas started Debian Java Maintainers (pkg-java) on April 13,
   2003 and from that time, we tried to maintain the more java packages
   we can, asking developers to join the effort. The main Debian
   Developers involved in Java packaging joined the project and a lot of
   non Debian Developers help us a lot (20 members at the moment).

   In my humble opinion, starting the project and co-maintaining the
   Java packages were real improvements. We have less unmaintained
   packages and they are in a better shape.

5° Future

   - fix the Debian Java Policy;
   - update the Debian Java FAQ;
   - more packages to pkg-java;
   - every packages to cdbs;
   - every packages to generate documentation with gjdoc, build the
     classpath documentation and make the javadoc to link to the
     appropriate libraries;
   - add a debian/watch file to every packages;
   - fix every bugs;
   - update our packages and clean up packages that are dead upstream;
   - more packages to main;
   - help free GNU Classpath hackers;
   - help upstream to build really free projects;
   - eclipse, tomcat5, dom4j, hibernate, spring, jonas and or jboss are
     packages I'd like to see in Debian. The list of important package
     could of course grow;

   The list is not finished, maybe this paragraph can be deleted, RFC.

6° Conclusion

   Even if Java is not in the shape we'd like it to be in Debian at the
   moment, there are a lot of work to make it fit the best we can in the
   distribution.

   We plan to integrate Java more and more in Debian and make it really
   free.

Thanks for your time,

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