Matthew Johnson wrote: > I've arranged for a Debian Java BOF at Debconf this year which I know many > people won't be at, so I'd like to have some sort of pre-discussion first. > > There are a number of issues I'd like to try and sort out with packaging > policy, and actually try and get them baked into policy. Firstly, I think we > need to move most of the changes suggested at FOSDEM 2006[1] into the main > policy. I then have some large issues and a couple of small ones which I'd > like > to address. > > General issues: > > - FOSDEM Draft > - Packaging tools > - Jar dependency resolution > - Transitions > > FOSDEM Draft: > > Library changes look good, particularly dropping runtime dependencies. Javadoc > is all sensible. Native and arch-dependent stuff is also all sensible. Unit > tests, shouldn't specifically refer to JUnit, but I think if the maintainer is > happy that there aren't any racy tests, failing the build on a failing unit > test is entirely reasonable. If it's a real regression, you really do want to > fail the build. > > The virual package section from here has been superseded since and I think we > have a fairly sensible set of packages. > > Packaging tools:
Project Jigsaw is going to change Java packaging in a major way. Whatever Debian changes to do, it needs to be able to work with the Jigsaw system. http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/ Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
