Re: Java packages in main depending on non-free java.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:25:15PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> 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.
Yes, we decided some time time ago that this is okay for main as long as the
first alternative is also in main.
Cheers,
Michael
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