Hello, [dropping mentors, this is bound to bore them, I guess]
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Damien Raude-Morvan <[email protected]> wrote: > Because, AFAIK, nobody answer to my initial request email (back in September > 2008) :) But, I'm really happy to be part of pkg-java now and will move this > package (and maybe others too) to it. > > This lead me to 2 questions : > - Is there some sort of policy which define good/bad candidates for pkg-java > usage ? part of Apache Commons is a MUST ? being a framework too ? forbidden > to contrib/non-free ? There are no specific rules I'm aware of - except the implicit one that it's got to be java-related ;-)... > - And BTW, I was looking for pkg-java SVN repository layout and usage > guidelines at java.debian.net and wiki.debian.org and can't found any up-to- > date documentation (just [1]). Do you have some links to share ? For me, http://wiki.debian.org/Java/JavaSvn says it all. But if that isn't enough for you, please ask and we'll come up with a decent update of that page. >> * Why do you build-dep on openjdk but depends on >> java-gcj-compat-headless ? If it runs with java-gcj, it should build >> with java-gcj. I don't think we have (yet) a policy on that, but if it >> builds with java-gcj, you really should consider building with it, as it >> makes a lower requirement of Java runtime (unless you tweak the build >> options for openjdk), and it is available on many more architectures. > > As you may have seen one of the binary-package (libcommons-jci-jsr199-java) is > currently disabled but need >= 6.x Java API (i.e. JSR199 got included in Java > 6 release). > This is why I use OpenJDK6 and tend to prefer to keep it as prefered B-D JDK. OK. >> * I'd personally prefer an upload to experimental... (during the freeze). > > This debate already took place last December [2] ;) > I'll update target release to experimental after playing with pkg-java SVN > repository. I'll have a look tomorrow (don't have my GPG keys today). Cheers, Vincent > [PS : No need to CC me, I'm subscribed to debian -java && -mentors] Sorry... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
