I have tested the kaffe built Lucene with the Sun runtime - all unit tests pass including the one giving us headaches. Thus there is no reason to believe the kaffe compiled jar is any worse than the Sun compiled jar currently in contrib.
[junit] Testsuite: org.apache.lucene.analysis.ru.TestRussianStem [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 1.177 sec I've signed the package and uploaded it to main. Great work, Barry.