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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