On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 07:02:10PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Francesco, > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 05:05:17PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > Until today most of the problems come from the bad attitude of java devs > > about license issues and management of dependencies. Most of the time > > they simply collect all stuff within a jar blob and go. > > That's surely true but in Debian we have no better (policy compliant) > clue than to unbundle their blobs into Java libraries with source. > Since the initial question was about JAI I said that this work in this > specific case is done but does not really help and upstream should be > told to seek for alternatives. I personally can not imaginge that if > the Java source code does not build with OpenJDK 7 the JAR will remain > functional in future JDK releases. >
Andreas, convince all them to use http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-imaging/ and leave that JAI abandonware to its final oblivion (as it has been for years now). An easy task, uh? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
