[James McCoy] > Peter, what do you think of a) dropping the arch blacklists for Java and > b) changing from gcj-jdk to default-jdk?
I'm a bit leery of using only OpenJDK everywhere, in principle, if it causes gcj to fade away. Java was always supposed to be an open platform, but these days it seems Oracle controls the only viable implementations. They effectively killed a competing effort at the ASF, after suing Google for daring to use it for the Android platform, a Java implementation they didn't control. (I don't know how the lawsuit went, but the Apache subproject died when its contributors all saw that there was no future in trying to oppose Oracle.) But... If the rest of the Debian Project has voted with their feet, and we support Oracle's de facto hegemony over Java, there's no reason for Subversion to stand against it. Besides, I don't even care much about Java in the first place. So, the main reason I haven't switched to OpenJDK and revisit the per-arch list, is just that it didn't seem worth the effort. If it's worth it now, go ahead. Ubuntu has already done so. (Not surprising, as they employ the openjdk maintainer.) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
