Debian Java Goals
This page contains the list of things that the Java Team would like to finish within the given release. These goals are generally goals that either affects a lot of packages, may involve a lot of work or improve the Debian Java infrastructure.
Feel free to claim any goal without a driver; if you wish to help with a specific goal, please contact the driver of that goal.
Wheezy
- OpenJDK-7
Driver: DamienRaudeMorvan, Status: Packages uploaded
Packaging source code : https://code.launchpad.net/~openjdk/openjdk/openjdk7
Package in experimental : http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openjdk-7.html
- Openjdk on kfreebsd
- Driver: ?, Status: ?
Complete default-jdk-builddep -> default-jdk + gcj-native-helper split
- Driver: Niels Thykier, Status: About 52 packages needs to be checked.
- Lintian nags about this since 2.5.0~rc1.
- Debhelper integration for maven-repo-helper and maven-debian-helper
- Driver: Ludovic Claude, Status: ?
- Driver: Possibly Russ Allbery?, Status: Draft
- Removal of servlet 2.3 and 2.4
Driver: ?, Status: 2.3 RM'ed, 2.4 Tracker bug (build-rdeps says ~15)
- Compile bytecode to native code post install (removal of -gcj packages).
- Driver: ?, Status: Not started
- Make jarwrapper installable and functional on non-Linux ports.
- Driver: javatools maintainers?, Status: ?
- Allow Java Library Transitions (possibly) via a SONAME-like method.
Driver: javatools maintainers?, Status: Not started/debated at DebConf10.
- A Debian Maven repository
- Driver: ?, Status: ?
- A Debian OSGi repository
- Driver: possibly Ludovic Claude and Niels Thykier?, Status: not started
Use of OBR? Fedora appears interested in OBR solution.
libmaven-bundle-plugin-java should help for all Maven-based build system
- Netbeans
Driver: DamienRaudeMorvan, Status: WiP, 478762
- Enforce the well-documented classpath policy
- JRuby in main
Driver: ?, Status: WiP, 551618
Review 1.6.0. Looks wholly buildable from main now BenArmstrong.
- Eliminate (build-)dependencies on included .jar files and repack DFSG source without them.