Luis Matos wrote on 17/05/2006 01:24: > Qua, 2006-05-17 às 00:50 +0200, Sven Mueller escreveu: > >>Luis Matos wrote on 16/05/2006 20:50: >> >>>Is it possible to have in volatile a version of java 1.5 for sarge? >>> >>Adding sun-java5 to volatile doesn't make much sense if you keep that in >>mind. And it doesn't match the criteria for volatile. > > That is why i mailed volatile's mailling list... true ... volatile only > updates packages that "are" in sarge, i think.
Not only that, the acceptance rules also say: * volatile is not "just another place" for backports, but should only contain changes to stable programs that are necessary to keep them functional; This implies two things: - The program has to already be in stable (today: sarge) - The package in stable has to be non-functional (like a messenger not unusable because the servers it uses changed their protocol or a virus scanner being basically non-functional because it can't use the newest signature files) Both are not true for Sun's Java. > Having a place where java is updated and we use only apt to manage that > is truly helpful. Like other packages, we don't have to be always > looking for new releases of any package. Regarding this, i made my > proposal. I somewhat agree that such a place would be useful (if you need Sun's Java and can't use a free alternative like kaffee), but I might add that backports.org is perhaps not willing to accept non-free programs (I'm not exactly sure about this). Ciao, Sven
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