openjdk-6-jre is Sun’s Java, in the version recently put under a free
license. Functionally it’s very close to sun-java6-jre. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openjdk.
If we’d build depend on sun-java6-jre, the package would not be able to
enter Debian main properly and reside in contrib.
Thanks for the explanation. I will try asap to check out the behavior of DITA OT when OpenJDK is used.
A note just in a case, if DITA OT does not work properly:
1. It would be impossible to generate Serna documentation (on Serna build stage)
2. Publishing of DITA documents from the Serna will be broken (it is obvious :))
but can you say what tools serna requires to run? For example, does it
use the xsltproc binary?
w/o xsltproc: user will not be able to publish Docbook and some other documents to HTML.
w/o DITA OT: user will not be able to publish DITA documents to HTML and PDF.
But it is better to have these tools installed, because out-of-the-box document publishing is a one of Serna's key features.