Bug#199673: Time to revisit this...

[Mark Howard]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:45:59AM +0100, Arnaud wrote:
> 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.
Why does it take so long to get kaffe in Debian always? It just keeps
coming up as a show stopper. If we're trying to get Java accepted in the
open source community, shouldn't we be making sure we always have the
latest free JVM releases? 

> > Does anyone have any other ideas?
> 
> IMHO you can close #213765 and #210474 and move gjdoc to contrib to
> remove #199673.

I'd prefer to keep the first two open until 0.6 moves to sarge. (they
were created to make it move to sarge (1<2 rc bugs), but that didn't
seem to work.
> 
> 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 ;)

I will try libxt-java tomorrow. If it's not easy to do, I will move
gjdoc to contrib :( and open an important bug saying it should be in
main.

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