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Fedora 9 got it 24 days ago. Now it's Debian's turn!

Dalibor Topic: OpenJDK in main is not only great because it means a lot of other Free Software Java-based packages can now more easily follow suit and enter main as well—it also means that a lot of the thorough work done by the OpenJDK community in the past weeks paid off in an OpenJDK source code tar ball that was cleaned up to meet the hardest standard of all distributions.

To put it simply, a free software implementation of Java, OpenJDK 6, has been accepted into the main portion of the Debian Sid (unstable) repository.

I can see it:

[weiqi@gao] $ feta update
...
[weiqi@gao] $ feta search openjdk-6

Running: apt-cache search openjdk
openjdk-6-dbg - Java runtime based on OpenJDK (debugging symbols)
openjdk-6-demo - Java runtime based on OpenJDK (demos and examples)
openjdk-6-doc - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) documentation
openjdk-6-jdk - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)
openjdk-6-jre - OpenJDK Java runtime
openjdk-6-jre-headless - OpenJDK Java runtime (headless)
openjdk-6-jre-lib - OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independent libraries)
openjdk-6-source - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) source files

The question is, will I be able to straightforwardly install the packages?

[root@gao] # feta search openjdk-6 | awk '{print "feta install " $1}' | bash

I'll let you know.