On 07/10/2013 09:40 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Niels, > > I perfectly agree that we should not try to keep OpenJDK-6 alive for > ages. However, jai-core is packaged as precondition for other packages > that are quite important (for Debian Med). The problem is that as you > probably know all these Java programs just include a jai-core.jar which > is unacceptable for a package in main. So we tried to package this code > that is orphaned since sic years if you look at their SVN > > https://java.net/projects/jai-core/sources/svn/show > > The question ist now, whether we as in Debian are able to maintain this > code (which also has a non-free license (JRL)) or whether there is some > replacement. I simply can not believe that there is no free library for > Java to do image operations. There are a few of course, ut with different APIs that may highly impact the code. We could however have a look
Olivier > Otherwise our chances to package our final > targets in medical imaging are close to zero. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 08:56:43AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am not the maintainer, but I think this might not be the best >> solution. We want to get rid of OpenJDK-6 in Debian (in Jessie), so >> this is at best a temporary solution. >> I would highly recommend porting the package to (also) work with >> OpenJDK-7 instead. >> >> ~Niels -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
