Re: Java packages in main depending on non-free java.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Kalle Kivimaa <kalle.kivimaa@iki.fi> wrote:
> Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
>> I went through the list of our public packages listed here[1] and it
>> turns out that we have 7 packages depending on a non-free version of
>> java (as an alternative to a free or a java-runtimeN).
>
> Eh? I checked azureus, and it correctly depends on openjdk-6-jre/jdk.
> It does also depend on alternative non-free Java implementations, but
> I'm not sure if this is disallowed by the policy.
Niels,
You are sending mails to wrong list. This is just a upload/bug
notification list. The discussions usually happen on debian-java list.
I don't think the issue you mentioned is really serious as non-free
JRE are added as alternative dependencies. As mentioned by Kalle I
don't think this is disallowed by policy.
>From the packages you mentioned both 'batik' and 'jcharts' use Sun
specific APIs which are only available in Sun JRE or OpenJDK JRE. So
we can not replace non-free JRE dependencies with virtual packages
(java5-runtime etc) unless upstream uses generic APIs.
azureus is known not to work with GCJ. That is the reason of
dependencies on OpenJDK and Sun JRE.
I am not sure about other packages.
Onkar
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