On Tue Feb 24 2015 at 2:23:26 AM Andreas Tille <
andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
Hi Michael,
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:37:43PM +0000, Michael Crusoe wrote:
> > To explain the problem: We need to build the package in the main
> > universe and the build-dependency libcolt-java is missing there. I
> > tried to simply drop this build-dependency (+libjai-core-java) and
> > looked what happened. I tried this approach and it might be possible
> > with some heavier patching but the very simple try failed.
> >
> > BTW, the situation is even worse since libjai-core-java is non-free and
> > previous discussion have shown that chances are close to zero to get
> > this old SUN code freed. There were some opinions raised that there are
> > better imaging libraries which could replace JAI but my question to more
> > details were not answered.
> >
> >
> Okay. I'll split the source packages. Shall I assume that colt is going to
> end up in main?
I admit that I became optimistic after the latest discussion, that we
have good chances to see libcolt-java in main in a sensible time frame
(3-6 monthes ??). I'm definitely not sure about libjai-core-java. Do
You see chances to extract this dependency as well?
Ah, okay. I'll keep the libcolt-java on the contrib side.
I have no plans on finding a Free replacement for libjai-core-java; related classes will also be part of the libjung-contrib-java source and binary package.