Hello,
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:48:50AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:17:10AM +0200, Stephan Wienczny wrote: > > I don't know how active upstream is. These packages are just dependencies > > for > > openfire. Openfire upstream includes these libraries in their package and > > if > > I'm correct these files will have to be removed from the upstream tarball > > to > > be suitable for debian. > > If that is the case, then, I think, Michael may consider them, under > the assumption that you agree to care for these packages! ;-) Right. > > I've got some questions about packaging java packages for debian. Which jre > > do > > you depend on and how/where is JAVA_HOME defined? > > I always prefer the `free' GCJ based one. To use it, the steps are: > > 1. Build-Depend on java-gcj-compat-dev. > 2. Depend on java-gcj-compa. "java-gcj-compat" If the software runs with a JRE. Some software needs an JDK replacement and then please use java-gcj-compat-dev. Please also allow alternatives to to satisfy the depends by using "java-gcj-compat | java1-runtime | java2-runtime" > 3. Use JAVA_HOME as /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj. Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers

