On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Marcus Better<[email protected]> wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> So my question: is it ok for package maintainer to use javac -source >> 1.5 to compile code or will there be some portability glitch (user is >> alowed to set other java compiler). > > It's certainly OK, even necessary in this case.
Mathieu, Please make sure that the package dependencies reflect that the package is built with source version 1.5. This can be done by specifying the dependency 'java5-runtime'. By the way, I am not sure why you are using ecj as compiler. I believe GCJ/OpenJDK are the preferred compilers these days. Cheers, Onkar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
