Re: Bug#44461: Fails to comply with the proposed Java Policy

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 04:16:11PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Your package does not comply with the proposed Debian Java policy, 
> which I intend to formally propose as a goal for potato. Therefore, could 
> you:
> 
> - make it compliant or,
> - explain why (it can be an error in the Policy, which I would like to 
>   fix).
> 
> More specifically, guavac fails because:
> 
> - it doesn't depend on java-common, as it should,
> - it doesn't provide java-compiler, as it should,
> - it depends on a CLASSPATH to find the core classes, therefore violating 
> Debian Policy 3.8 (hence the 'normal' severity instead of 'wishlist').

Thanks for the report Stephane. My maintainership of guavac dates
from the hamm days -- I took it on because it needed to be built
for libc6, and it was currently abandoned.

I don't use it -- I've only just started with Java and, I confess,
I've just stuck with Sun's JDK to do it. I've offered guavac for adoption
on debian-java before without success.

I do not know when I will have time to fix this bug -- I welcome
patches from anyone interested enough to do the work.

Although it does indeed provide java-compiler, you are incorrect there.


thanks
Hamish
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