On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > So, we have a situation where the #1 and #3 packages installed from > > "non-free" on people's systems are not actually present in Debian's > > non-free (any more). Also, no version of Java later than 1.1 is > > present. > yep, but these are also the most high profile packages. I guess the > situation is different for other packages in non-free. > Also, installing java stuff from third party sources is a pain. See for > example the problem with mozilla-cvs and mozilla-snapshot, which you > have to hand fix in the postinst. Also, there is no 1.4 .deb for powerpc > for example. I'm not sure how this is germane to the discussion. We've already established that there are no packages of recent Java implementations that we *can* distribute in non-free, so it doesn't affect the question of keeping non-free. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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