On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 04:12:47PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christian Surchi wrote: > [...] > | Blackdown.org released in january packages for 1.3.1 powerpc. > | > | ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/java-linux/JDK-1.3.1/ppc/FCS/ > | > | Can you support also those releases? > [...] > 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 -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
