On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Onkar Shinde<[email protected]> wrote: > 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'.
Ok, no problem ! > By the way, I am not sure why you are using ecj as compiler. I believe > GCJ/OpenJDK are the preferred compilers these days. I do not have the slightest idea. this goes way beyond my understanding of the automatic building of package (buildd) mechanism. I simply need something that works to get my package uploaded :) Thanks ! -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers

