[taking this off the live dvd ml] Alex: > Wild guess, this might be in relation to the rumors that maven can
> directly lead to deb packaging in line with the normal build procedure > of many Java apps. cmake can do something similar, direct to rpm and deb, but again lumping everything in a dir into a package isn't hard, the hard part is ticking off all the boxes to make the policy manual happy. (e.g. no image files in /usr/lib, separate packages for docs and platform independent parts, scripts to generate any binary data files, copyright provinance audits,..) You'll get a working package, but to get it accepted beyond a ppa the hard work is generally in dealing with the last 5% meta details. > I don't know the details but it's been mentioned to > me a few times. There was also some technical bit I didn't quite > understand about how to push Java apps to Debian and Ubuntu build > servers, since they didn't use to have the JAVA build chain on them but > I think do in some way now. > > Maybe step 1, is clarify the procedure. > > I agree josm might be a good place to look. this is probably the best place to start: http://wiki.debian.org/Java#Developers_-_Java_packaging_work_in_Debian more on the maven-debian-helper script there, looks pretty straight forward. thanks, Hamish _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
