Yes, icedtea *IS* the free JRE you talked about and yes, icedtea is *not*
in non-free / multiverse.  So for the time being (for hardy) would you
please please please *ignore* what happens in debian and use my patch to
set jabref to be built on icedtea-java7-jdk (I've already tested it and it
works perfectly).

Then we can move jabref *out* of the multiverse section and then quickly
persuade the maintainers of the metapackage texlive and texlive-latex3 to
include jabref into their dependencies (or at least recommended package)

Otherwise *no-one* will know your package and use jabref.

By the way, although icedtea is not yet in main, it is already in universe
and it is therefore 100% free (in Debian/gobuntu standard) and in my
opinion we really should switch to it *now*.


Quoting gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> A few short thoughts from my point of view as the Debian maintainer of
> JabRef:
>
> 1) I'd love to see JabRef run with a free JRE and then being included
> in Debian and Ubuntu proper (and not in non-free/multiverse anymore).
> 2) For the time being I cannot change this on the Debian side, as long
> as icedtea is not in Debian.
> 3) If Ubuntu decides to make the "switch" earlier that's perfectly fine
> with me, I'm even glad because it provides the possibility for tests;
> it's just something that needs to happen by patching JabRef's version
> in Ubuntu, and I can't help there.
>
> Thanks for your initiative and your work!
>
> Cheers,
> gregor
>
> --
> should include icedtea-java7-jre as an alternative dependency to allow
> inclusion and building into purely free distribution such as gobuntu
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194509
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** Changed in: jabref (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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