Re: JAVA on DebianPPC

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

> is this a "political" issue or is there just no maintainer for JAVA
> packages?

Sun's Java implementation is proprietary software.  You can't even
redistribute it, much less improve it and share it with your friends,
like you can the rest of Debian.

That being said though, there was some discussion on the debian-java
list about Sun's JDK becoming redistributable, and thus able to go
into non-free.  Don't hold your breath, though.

Meanwhile, GCJ and Kaffe continue to improve...