Hello Barry,
It's nice to see an original maintainer of java-package back on it. I hope you will like the changes I made to it :-)
Current state of work is :
- sources have moved to git (
git.debian.org/git/pkg-java/java-package.git)
- java-package 0.50 has been pushed to sid and wheezy (sponsored by Sylvestre Ledru)
- I'm currently merging contributions I received on my github (
https://github.com/cedricpineau/java-package). Mainly code and branding cleaning, support for oracle java6<u10 as well as future versions
- I'm planning to add IBM java 6 and 7 packaging support (
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html)
- I keep track of further improvement in the README file of the git repo :-)
One important thing I did left behind for now because I don't get what has to be done for it, is Matthias Klose request : "install into a multiarch location to allow installing the i386 client vm on amd64 and ia64"
I would appreciate if you Barry or anyone one this thread could give me tips on this !