Well,If I got the basic discussion right, there is no JDK for debian available yet. The maintainer of JAVA-related packages has IMHO a somewhat dogmatic approach to the debian policy of distributing only free software. So he is reluctant to make the ported JDK available. Which brings me to the point that may help you: Go to www.blackdown.org. They have ported the Sun-JDK for linux-powerpc. 1.3 works for me like a charm (except it's not available as .deb, but I think I've made this point already ;) )
Regards Olaf
I've a trouble while installing JDK, I've get it from Sun server, the file name is : j2sdk-1_3_0_02-linux.bin (a strange package) the first step I've done is: