Re: Getting a Java package in the distribution?

[Andreas Schmitz <vstranger@arcor.de>]

Jan Schulz wrote:

Hi,

> > This package can't be in main, since the source code is not included (at 
> > least not extracted). Even if it was correctly included and used to 
> > build the JAR, 

> Does it need to be extracted? The problem with java source packages
> are usually, that they are not a least conform with the format which
> dpkg-source likes, so almost ever java package I've seen (including my
> own...) has a 'uncompress-stamp' in debian/rules and justs puts the
> upstream file somwhere and and build a orig.tar.gz by hand.

Well, I don't know very much about Debian packaging at all, but I
packaged one Java program (which is using j2sdk1.4.*). It builds itself
using dpkg-buildpackage or apt-get -b source so feel free to have a look
at it. (Most of it I learned from the ant package, so having a look at
it would be a good thing.)

http://cdox.sf.net

or

deb ftp://sammael.tabu.stw-bonn.de/pub/debian/ testing contrib
deb-src ftp://sammael.tabu.stw-bonn.de/pub/debian/ testing contrib

Beware, it won't be online too long the next time (I'll be moving
probably, and so is the server).

Regards, Andreas