Re: lib-openxml-java is precompiled only: is this a bug?

2000-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I can accept that java creators are in a sufficient state of flux to jsutify not regenerating the binary ourselves. I suggest that these packages be be collected into a can't build from source package list, with all the security connotations. I volunteer to mainta

Re: lib-openxml-java is precompiled only: is this a bug?

2000-02-22 Thread Stefan Gybas
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Should policy explicitly deprecate this methodology? I am > inclined to think so, but I'm willing to be taught the error of my > ways. We already had this discussion on Debian-Java last year but did not find a solution there. I also have a package that just cop

Re: lib-openxml-java is precompiled only: is this a bug?

2000-02-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Fabrizio" == Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fabrizio> Hi, I was examining other's java packages searching for Fabrizio> ideas when I noticed that this package has sources, but Fabrizio> they are not used to produce the binary package; a Fabrizio> precompiled stuff, also includ

lib-openxml-java is precompiled only: is this a bug?

2000-02-22 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Hi, I was examining other's java packages searching for ideas when I noticed that this package has sources, but they are not used to produce the binary package; a precompiled stuff, also included in the original package, is copyed into the binary. That's it. I felt this was a grave omission, and I