> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Vincent Privat wrote: > >> We understand the problem but I don't know if keeping the old cache is >> easy >> nor feasible. Wiktor what do you think? Is the old code still there or >> has >> it been dropped during the switch ? > > Actually I DO NOT see the problem. > > Debian requires building from source which is true for most other > distributions as well. That's fine. > > Debian does nowhere require that a software needs to be split into > multiple pieces. That may have some advantages but also has a series of > disadvantages. And if nobody has time to do it, then simply don't do it!
I wish it was that simple. While the Debian Policy does not explicitly require splitting out embedded dependencies, it's a very common packaging best practice. Debian does recommend upstream developers to not include 3rd party code, see: https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#No_inclusion_of_third_party_code While it's phrased mostly for C/C++ shared libraries, it applies to Java projects just the same. > JCS is now an integral part of JOSM. As it is also a library it could be > provided by another package. But that's not required and also can be > changed at any time in the future. > > Altogether I never understood the way Debian packages JOSM and from user > side it's complicated, error prone and also wastes space on harddisk. To > fulfill Debian guidelines building a jar from source would be perfectly > fine like you build binaries for other tools. > > So Debian packages do a lot of actually unnecessary work and need constant > adaption to changing source code. But that's the choice of package > maintainers and no requirement. This attitude makes me want to remove the josm package from Debian again. Last time this caused a number of users of the josm package in Debian to object, instead of pushing for the removal of the package I started to co-maintain the package. That went surprisingly well until recently, mostly thanks to Vincent who's been a superb upstream to work with. Kind Regards, Bas _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
