Re: debian-java-faq seems to be pretty old -
at bottom :-
On 02/09/2018, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:
> On 31/08/2018 18:27, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>
>> 1.2 Location of this FAQ
>>
>> This FAQ is published under the Debian Documentation Project at
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/. The java-common
>> (available at http://packages.debian.org/java-common) provides an HTML
>> version for offline reading.
>>
>> this is no longer true -
>
> I refactored java-common 3 years ago to split the documentation from the
> default Java packages. The policy and the FAQ are now in the java-policy
> repository:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/java-policy
>
> Merge requests to update the documentation are welcome :)
>
> Emmanuel Bourg
>
Dear all,
Thank you Emmanuel for sharing the links.
These are the things I have done at my end -
1. Forked the repo. to my salsa namespace -
https://salsa.debian.org/shirishag75-guest/java-policy
2. Cloned the repo. at my end -
~/games$ git clone https://salsa.debian.org/shirishag75-guest/java-policy
Cloning into 'java-policy'...
warning: redirecting to
https://salsa.debian.org/shirishag75-guest/java-policy.git/
remote: Enumerating objects: 1115, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1115/1115), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (356/356), done.
remote: Total 1115 (delta 727), reused 1115 (delta 727)
Receiving objects: 100% (1115/1115), 206.11 KiB | 64.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (727/727), done.
I am using https://stackoverflow.com/a/32127674/3597669 as my guide.
3. Created a branch at my end -
~/games/java-policy$ git checkout -b faqchanges
Switched to a new branch 'faqchanges'
Now while I'm doing the nominal changes am stuck at certain points -
a. <version>$Revision: 7831 $, $Date: 2013-06-05 21:17:15 +0100 $
how is the revision and time-stamp derived. If I were to guess it would be
something to do with moinmoin ?
b. In 2.2 at https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch2.en.html
gcj and libgcj: http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
Classpath http://www.classpath.org. Most of the Standard classes for
Java 1.2 (except Swing and RMI) are implemented by the ClassPath
project, it tries to build an alternative to jdk's 1.2 core classes.
(NB: This was removed from Squeeze)
Should this content be there anymore ? - guess both can be removed as
nothing of the two projects remain
Even Most free Java development is grouped under the Free Java Project
which links to https://www.gnu.org/software/java/ doesn't have much
except the classpath history .
I was surprised to know that gnu java which at one point was a
high-priority project was deprecated within gcc
https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2014/08/msg00084.html
c. In 2.4.2 I am not sure what links should be put in place of
http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html#rules and
http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/building.html
d. For https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch3.en.html
esp. the non-free java would need to pursue the launchpad ppa archive
-
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-in-debian.html
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch4.en.html
e. 4.5 How can I use the proprietary version of the JDK/JRE from
Oracle as a Debian package?
This probably needs an updated answer, either we give the same link as
above i.e.
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-in-debian.html
or maybe something else as
http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2012/02/29/java_package_replacement_of_sun_java6
is no longer sufficient :(
I did couple of commits and have put the same as a merge requests at
https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/java-policy/merge_requests/1 just
for comparison purposes whether it's good or not.
Quite a few questions of the above need answering before the same can
be considered somewhat done (for now) .
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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