On Sun Feb 22 2015 at 3:23:53 AM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 08:50:37AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > That could be a workaround. Since you can not create such binary > > packages from one source package you need to create different source > > packages. I admit I'm fine if you ignore the contrib part for the > > moment if you only need the part without libcolt-java. > > To explain the problem: We need to build the package in the main > universe and the build-dependency libcolt-java is missing there. I > tried to simply drop this build-dependency (+libjai-core-java) and > looked what happened. I tried this approach and it might be possible > with some heavier patching but the very simple try failed. > > BTW, the situation is even worse since libjai-core-java is non-free and > previous discussion have shown that chances are close to zero to get > this old SUN code freed. There were some opinions raised that there are > better imaging libraries which could replace JAI but my question to more > details were not answered. > > Okay. I'll split the source packages. Shall I assume that colt is going to end up in main?
