Hi Markus, Thanks, I'll do that.
George. On 28 July 2016 at 16:32, Markus Koschany <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28.07.2016 17:19, George Bateman wrote: >> Hi Markus, >> >> Processing has a rather complex build system, so I've deliberately >> avoided the packaging helpers and just added tasks to the upstream Ant >> script, so the debian/rules file is just a simple wrapper around >> build.xml. So far this has worked fine and I've got a working package; >> I've been making sure it continues to obey the policies. >> >> You say that javahelper would just create the unversioned symlink, so >> does dpkg automatically handle conflicts between (say) >> libprocessing3-java and libprocessing4-java if both provide >> contradictory symlinks called /usr/share/java/processing-core.jar? Or >> is there any action that I would need to take? > > If both packages provide contradictory symlinks but use the same name > then you must declare a Breaks or Conflicts relationship [1] to avoid > that both packages are installed at the same time. I don't know enough > about Processing but you should avoid this scenario. I would probably > rename one symlink to /usr/share/java/processing3-core.jar and the other > one to /usr/share/java/processing4-core.jar to get the distinction > right. dpkg won't handle this scenario automatically. > > [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html >
