Bug#296205: support for ppc 1.3.1 packages

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 04:12:47PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
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> Christian Surchi wrote:
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> | Blackdown.org released in january packages for 1.3.1 powerpc.
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> | ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/java-linux/JDK-1.3.1/ppc/FCS/
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> | Can you support also those releases?
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> That is certainly an option to pursue, but the Blackdown release is also
> supposedly packaged for Debian already on the Blackdown mirrors.
> Neither of the North American mirrors seems to be updated, nor does
> yours.  Is this mirror staleness characteristic of Blackdown?
> 
> Assuming the mirrors were up-to-date, we could simply add the
> appropriate mirror to our /etc/apt/sources.list and be able to install
> it.  If they are indefinitely delayed, then I would certainly view
> adding PowerPC Blackdown support to java-package as an important
> wishlist item, since we have no other viable alternative other than
> working on IBM JDK support to give us a fully-developed JDK/JRE.

I don't think it's up to upstream to provide .deb packages, especially
as they then do not provide much control from Debian about it -- for
example, the package names are not like java-package does, and iirc
there were some more issues with them.

I think java-package should support blackdown, and blackdown should
really try to fix their mirrors, and it'd be nice if their packaging was
integrated in java-package, and they simply distribute java-package
generated .deb's, as Debian cannot distribute them, not even in
non-free.

--Jeroen

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