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: ?, Status: Not started
- Openjdk on kfreebsd
- Driver: ?, Status: ?
Complete default-jdk-builddep -> default-jdk + gcj-native-helper split
- Driver: Niels Thykier, Status: About 66 packages needs to be checked.
- 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 bug, 2.4 Tracker bug (build-rdeps says ~18)
- 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: Not started/debated at DebConf10.
- Allow Java Library Transitions (possibly) via a SONAME-like method.
- Driver: javatools maintainers?, Status: ?
- A Debian Maven repository
- Driver: ?, Status: ?
- A Debian OSGi repository
- Driver: possibly Ludovic Claude and Niels Thykier?, Status: not started
- Netbeans
- Driver: possibly Damien Raude-Morvan?, Status: ?