packaging geoserver

[Rudi Hochmeister <rudi.hochmeister@gmail.com>]

Hi,

a)Since geoserver is dependent on geotools, would it make sense to 
package geotools separate and make geoserver use this package?
New versions are often released together from developer.
A problem would be uDig, since it often comes with an older geotools 
version, which could make it necessary to have different versions of
geotools installed in parrallel

b)Do the sources in debian package only have to be compileable and 
provide already compiled binaries in binary debian package.
Or has the binary debian package to be build from source debian package 
which involves integration of a maven build system (which seems to be a 
lot work, as far as I know by now).

cheers