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Re: Update on libxalan2-java to main



On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:37:53PM +0200, Wolfgang Baer wrote:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> >On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:05:51PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> [...]
> >>Building kaffe with Cairo is on the Debian Kaffe Road Map
> >>http://java.debian.net/index.php/PlansForKaffeInDebian
> >We can currently only use cairo 0.3.0. The 0.4.0 in Debian doenst work.
> >When the cairo API stabilizes in CVS and a new version is in Debian we
> >can activate this.
> 
> Yes, that was kaffe cvs against a local cario 3.0 installation.
> 
> Well, until the API stabilizes and then arrives in Debian and all that
> ... I think that will need some more time.
> 
> Therefore, I would propose as soon as sarge is out to upload the
> needed ant 1.6.3 to unstable and build libxalan2-java temporarily
> without the manual (which makes problems) and later, if kaffe/cairo
> combination works, adding the manual back.
> 
> This way we can go on with moving packages to main. As xalan2 is
> the main problem I think this temporarily solution can be accepted.
> We can for some time adding a note to the README.Debian so people
> know to have a look at the xalan2 webpage for the manual.
> 
> What do you think ?

Sounds good, Please go ahead.


Michael
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