On Son, 2002-02-10 at 23:37, Laurent de Segur wrote: > on 2/10/02 2:00 PM, Jan-Hendrik Palic at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > about several months ago, there were some java debs in incoming, but > > they were rejected. > > > > But now, they aren't there. > > > > Where can I find the debs? > > That's right. A while ago, there were some efforts trying to package the jdk > into deb files for a debian savvy installation and all the benefits > associated with such a release. > > However, due to major compatibility issues with the mozilla plugin api at > that time, this work was pushed back to a later time (this is at least the > impression I got.) Mozilla apis have had the nasty habit of breaking plugin > code from one release to another which would have been a real pain as debian > offers multiple releases of mozilla according to the release you are > running.
That problem applied to all architectures, didn't it? So have the i386 debs not been updated either recently? > As it appears that the mozilla plugin api were frozen in the latest public > release (of course no guarantee before 1.0), now is the the perfect time to > resume this work, I suppose. > > I've packaged and tested the latest upgrade for ppc (1.3.1_02b) on the > blackdown server. The release is not official yet (any time now), but if the > debian maintainer wants to contact me and work on this, that would be great. So are you in contact with him? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
