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 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > ** Changed in: jabref (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- 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 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
