Re: Current status of your swt-gtk package
Joe Smith <unknown_kev_cat <at> hotmail.com> writes:
> I understand that. What I was saying is that it seemed odd that upstream had
> not done this. It may be a wise dea to prod upstream and see if they will
> update for 3.2. I doubt the breakage is too severe.
They may, but not this early in the release cycle. See
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=98371 for details.
> The new packages run on kaffe? (it sounds that way, If you used a different
> free jvm them just 's/kaffe/[name of other JVM]/' for the following
> questions.)
Afaik, yes. And on gcj/gij. And surely on the various other up-to-date free
runtimes in Debian, since they all use pretty much the same class libs :)
> Did you remove the depends on an 'offical' JVM, or do 'kaffe|...'?
> If you removed the depends on the 'offical' JVM rather than make it a
> choice, please reconsider. Explanation: I have a JVM from sun installed on
> my system solely for reasons of practicallity. Since I already have that
> installed, and that is known to run Eclipse just fine, I do not want to
> waste space downloading kaffe.
It'd be impossible to move it main, afaik, if it only depended and worked
on non-free software.
If you want to avoid a $freevm download completely, you'd have to
make sure that the eclipse 3.1 package and all its dependencies build
and work fine on the non-free software in question, and don't
mess with the non-free software's licensing restrictions, for example.
That's quite a chunk of work, and since the manpower of the
debian-java effort is limited, most people doing the actual packaging
work tend to concentrate their efforts on Free Software, which
Debian can distribute freely together.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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