Hi,
Andrew John Hughes wrote:
The more obvious question for me is why NetBeans needs a fork of this
in the first place. The Debian OpenJDK team have already gone through
the extensive task of verifying this code legally to package OpenJDK
6, which is now in unstable and testing:
http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=openjdk-6
Having another copy in another package seems ludicrous and a
duplication of existing work.
There are users who want to use NetBeans but don't want to install openjdk.
(you can find an example here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netbeans/+bug/258844)
They already have sun-java6-jdk installed and expect NetBeans to work on
it.
That is why NetBeans needs a fork of the code included into openjdk.
Thanks,
Yulia
