Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source

2008-04-01 Thread Francisco Moya
Dear all, I'm the current maintainer of ZeroC Ice packages. Ice is a GPL'd CORBA-like middleware for distributed heterogeneous computing. Recently the upstream developers reunified all of the source packages into a single big tarball. Some of the packages (the Java5 packages) work well under

Re: Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source

2008-04-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote: Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)? I don't see a reason to not do that. Is it fine to upload a binary to contrib while the source package is in main?

Re: Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue Apr 01 14:26, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote: Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)? I don't see a reason to not do that. I believe this is still required to