Hi Torsten,
Due to the removal of javaws from the openjdk packages I am no longer able
to use EVO (http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate) for teleconference
collaboration. The package you suggest installing, "icedtea-netx" is not
available testing. It seems, therefore, it is now impossible to run "web
start" applications with OpenJDK on Debian testing. This is a serious
loss of functionality, and I hope it is fixed soon.
On that note, even if icedtea-netx was available in testing today, I
wouldn't have ever known that I need to install something called
"icedtea-netx" to run .jnlp applications. I am not a Java developer, and
I suspect no other non-experts will understand the association between the
package name "icedtea-netx" and the problem "I need to run a webstart
application". Therefore, perhaps icedtea-netx should provide a "javaws"
virtual package, and openjdk should recommend "javaws", which the package
manager will then show can be provided by icedtea-netx. By making the
dependency be on an intermediate virtual package named "javaws" it might
be more clear to people why they might want to install this package.
Thanks,
-Kipp
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