Hi, gwt (google web toolkit) needs the sources jar of all external jar files it should compile to javascript. Currently there's not a single package shipping sources jars and the Maven Source Plugin isn't even packaged.
So I need to add an ITP for the Source Plugin to the already impressive dependency list of Gerrits ITP[1] and I need to patch the following packages to also produce sources jars: - jgit - gwtorm (still ITP) - gwtjsonrpc (still ITP) - gwtexpui (still ITP) - geronimo-validation-1.0-spec Maven-Debian-Helper (or Repo-Helper?) needs to be patched not to exclude the sources plugin by default and I think the dependency mangling also doesn't work with the sources classifier. Now there're policy questions: Should there be separate binary packages for the sources jar? (I think so.) Should there be a standard place to put the sources jars? ( e.g. /usr/share/java-sources ) Is there any preference from the eclipse packagers how to handle sources jars? Should the java policy recommend to also package sources jars? Should there be a naming scheme for sources jars packages? Should there be one binary sources package for every Debian source package or should there be a match to have one binary sources package for every Debian binary jar package? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/589436 Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
