Am Samstag, den 12.08.2006, 15:32 -0400 schrieb Noel J. Bergman: > Norman Maurer wrote on 22May2006: > > > > It would be nice if we could package JAMES as a debian / ubuntu package. > > > I [do debian packaging] often for the company i work for. So > > just tell me when we get a stable and i will do the job ;-) > > Are you ready? Would you try producing one from RC2? If so, I will try it > on Ubuntu.
Well, im ready.. But like you know for debian we can not depend on java packages cause there are none. But we can easly "show" a notice that java is needed after installation. So yes i can do ;-) > > > > It would depend upon sun-java5-jre, and provide mail-transport-agent > > > (sendmail.py should suffice, when linked as /usr/sbin/sendmail). > > And /usr/lib/sendmail as a symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail. exactly > > > But the main problem in debian will be that there are no java packages. > > In ubuntu there are some packages sun-java5* > > Perhaps we should create two packages: one that requires sun-java5* and one > that does not, but perhaps issues a warning that there must be Java 1.4+ > available? See first answer ;-) > > I would, personally, prefer the latter for my own use, even on Ubuntu. I > stick with Sun's tarball releases, and symlink /usr/local/java to where I > have Java installed. > > --- Noel I think if we not depend on java packages we can use the same "tree" to build packages for debian and ubuntu. bye Norman
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