On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Eduardo Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I have been in discussion with Andreas Radke about the JRE and JDK > packages. Here is the thing, they are both greatly outdated, they are at > u7 when the latest is u10, both have a pending bug and a pending feature > request, and both have no maintainer. > > I can't take on neither of them, since I don't need them, so I won't > test them after upgrade and bug fixing. The bug that needs fixing is a > very easy one to fix, so no problem from that way, is just the time > which is the problem. > > Now, we have an option, should we keep it in extra where some developer > in search of an orphan to adopt for his collection can take care of it, > or should we move it to Community/AUR?
Looks like no developers are really expressing interest in this. Java seems like a pretty important package to have in the official repos, but if no one is willing to maintain it we have ourselves a problem. Is there a TU that is willing to take these packages on for community? -Dan
