Barry deFreese <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

> jikes is orphaned, unmaintained, and buggy and therefore we are trying
> to remove it from the archive.  airport-utils currently build-depends
> on jikes but seems to build and run fine without it. (Though I don't
> have an airport to test all with).  Could you please remove the build
> dependency on jikes?

Sure, no problem. I'd just like to know what to replace it with. I
don't quite grok how java works/is maintained/packaged in Debian.

I wouldn't mind getting a clear explanation of how it's supposed to
work today, now that we have a free JDK that's pretty much up to par
with Sun's.

Thanks,

JB.

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