On 10.01.2011 10:11, Daniel Kreuter wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Anssi Hannula <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 08.01.2011 11:39, Farfouille wrote: > > My suggestion would be to look at how Mandriva packages are done, as we > will probably initially follow their java policy. > (note that the mandriva java packages do not have the gcj AOT binaries, > and they are compiled with openjdk on archs were openjdk is available) > > I'm not saying that a completely new java packaging policy is not needed > (it is), though, so if the java developers have the resources to convert > all imported java packages to a completely new policy, I'm all for it :) > > There are around 400 java packages in Mandriva, though I hope we don't > need to import all of them (i.e. hopefully many are unused/old). > > -- > Anssi Hannula > > > That could be a very hard task, because you have to look if there aren't > any dependencies on some of these packages. I would suggest to drop the > whole gcj packages, but even it's unmaintained now by upstream,
GCJ is not unmaintained, it is part of GCC. See http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/java/ChangeLog?view=markup Dropping it would be more work than not dropping it, so I don't see the point. > there > are a few programs depending on it (like a few packages of ant i think) Ant doesn't depend on it. There are several packages that depend on it, though, yes. > But writing a policy about the openjdk would be the right thing now > because we will integrate it, it's also in mandriva but without a policy > or Remy didn't find one for that. Yes. -- Anssi Hannula
