Public bug reported:
At this stage, jabref depends on the non-free sun-java, which is in
multiverse and prevents jabref to be built on a completely-free system,
thus cannot be included by default in ubuntu, or at least the Linux
latex metapackage.
Now I have included icedtea-java7-jre as an alternative dependency. I
have also included icedtea-java7-jdk as the build-dependency of jabref.
I have read your email list and realized that there are some resistance
in our group to change this situation, citing that this file is derived
from Debian and debian does not have icedtea etc. However in my
opinion, if we want jabref to be built and installed by default (which I
think it should) and therefore be visible to everyone who uses ubuntu /
kubuntu / xubuntu, we have to take the initiative and switch to the now-
free icedtea environment.
I have tested my patch and it both builds and runs perfectly on my
xubuntu hardy alpha 4 laptop.
** Affects: jabref (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Emmet Hikory (persia)
Status: In Progress
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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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