Bug#575447: [Fwd: Re: Bug#575447: lintian: Please add a warning in a .jar is not in /usr/share/java/]

2010-03-27 Thread Niels Thykier
I see I accidentally failed to send this to the bug report Original Message Subject: Re: Bug#575447: lintian: Please add a warning in a .jar is not in /usr/share/java/ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:49:05 +0100 From: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net To: Sylvestre Ledru

Bug#575447: lintian: Please add a warning in a .jar is not in /usr/share/java/

2010-03-25 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Hello, It would be nice if you could add a lintian warning if a .jar file is installed in an other directory than /usr/share/java/ Thanks! Sylvestre PS: The Debian Java policy is available here:

Bug#575447: lintian: Please add a warning in a .jar is not in /usr/share/java/

2010-03-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi I am not sure I can support this. There has been an interest in allowing a package to install private jar files in /usr/share/pkg/. Though jar files beneath /usr/lib/ is *usually* a problem (the swt jars are known exceptions). Though I think these are so rare that an override is in order for

Bug#575447: lintian: Please add a warning in a .jar is not in /usr/share/java/

2010-03-25 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le jeudi 25 mars 2010 à 21:45 +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit : Hi I am not sure I can support this. There has been an interest in allowing a package to install private jar files in /usr/share/pkg/. Though jar files beneath /usr/lib/ is *usually* a problem (the swt jars are known