Re: Sun's OpenJDK in Debian?

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 22:50 +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> > Is this the main blocker for accepting OpenJDK in Debian? Would it be
> > possible to just omit the binary modules or to replace these with free
> > implementations from other free projects?
> 
> Yes, this is a big blocker for this. We are working on icedtea, a
> temporary fork of openjdk, which tries to replace the the closed source
> parts. This is mainly discussed on the openjdk mailing lists and on IRC.

Since openjdk has so many lists, the one you are looking for is:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/distro-pkg-dev

Or in gmane start with this thread:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.distro-packaging.devel/5

Only bootstraps on Fedora 7 for now, but we are making (very) slow
progress to get things to build fully on Debian also.
All help appreciated!

Cheers,

Mark