java-gnome package request

[Mark Howard]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:03:22PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Would it be possible to put the java-gnome package (or the various others,
> > libgtk-java, libgconf-java, libgnome-java, libglade-java) in universe?
> > libqt is in there... (ahem ;))
> 
> It's already there.  It simply can't build because there is no java
> available.

Java-Gnome does not need sun java, it works and builds perfectly well with gcj
or kaffe. If you decide to look into it, please start with the Debian packages
from experimental rather than unstable. They are for gnome 2.8 and have a number
of improvements to the build system over the packages in unstable. 

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