-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Onkar Shinde wrote: >>> So my question: is it ok for package maintainer to use javac -source >>> 1.5 to compile code
>> It's certainly OK, even necessary in this case. > 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'. I don't think this is needed if covariant return types are the only Java 5 feature used as this is only a Java language feature, but I might be wrong here. You can try by compiling with -target 1.4. Cheers, Marcus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpDUVMACgkQXjXn6TzcAQnt9ACgukqqHCYN8vdl6c2tF2dWoMHR HmEAn0flGVSrMUqfLiW/qHCLSQjMifNN =nTj5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
