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