Dear all, I'm the current maintainer of ZeroC Ice packages. Ice is a GPL'd CORBA-like middleware for distributed heterogeneous computing.
Recently the upstream developers reunified all of the source packages into a single big tarball. Some of the packages (the Java5 packages) work well under icedtea and Sun JRE 6 but they don't work at all under any other Java 6 JVM distributed in Debian. Therefore they should go to contrib. But now there is just one source package. AFAIK IcedTea is entering main debian soon. Should I split the source package into a main and contrib part? Should I release binaries for the DFSG-free part and provide a simple way to recompile the package with the full functionality? Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)? Is it fine to upload a binary to contrib while the source package is in main? Best regards, Paco -- Paco Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
