Bug#199673: Time to revisit this...

[Arnaud]

Forgot to send to the BTS :'(

Subject: Re: Bug#199673: Time to revisit this...
From: Arnaud <avdyk@debian.org>
Message-ID: <87ptepg24u.fsf_-_@oz.fapse.ulg.ac.be>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:14:09 +0100

Mark Howard <mh344@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 01:32:29PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>> Doesn't look like libxalan2-java, or ant, are moving to main any time
>> soon.  :-P
>> 
>> How's this bug going?  Could someone consider thinking about it
>> again?...
>
> Unless there are other XSLT Processors available which could go into
> main,

[...]

$ apt-cache show libxt-java

Package: libxt-java
Section: libs
Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.20020426a-2
Description: An implementation in Java of XSL Transformations
 It allows you to write Java applications which will
 process XSL stylesheets of XML documents.

> we only have two options:
>  - try to get libxalan2 into main (can anyone give details of the exact
>    problems?)

I think xalan2 uses internal sun.* classes and it's difficult to have it
built with (say) kaffe or another free jvm. Also, note that the kaffe
release in Debian is 1.1.1 and upstream is 1.1.3 with a lot of
improvments! So maybe it will be possible to build xalan2 with kaffe in
the next releases.

>  - move gjdoc to contrib. This would completely defeat the idea of gjdoc
>    and would be really bad though.

Yes, please, do that. It's not a problem to move it back in main later
but it will be possible to remove #199673. Also, I think you can close
#213765: sarge gjdoc doesn't work right
and
#210474: poor output from old gjdoc versions

because the newer release solves that.

> Does anyone have any other ideas?

IMHO you can close #213765 and #210474 and move gjdoc to contrib to
remove #199673.

If you have some time, you can try to get gjdoc working with libxt-java
(and gjdoc will be back in main), or you wait for a week or two for me
to merge libxmlj and gnujaxp ;)... or maybe three weeks or a month ;)

Cheers,

-- 
Arnaud