Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository
Ben Burton wrote:
Currently the java libraries I package are in the form of:
/usr/share/java/foo-version.jar
/usr/share/java/foo.jar -> foo-version.jar
This is the most sensible choice - it works well for /lib, /usr/lib
so it should would well for jars.
The other problem with just having a repository directory is that
java's versioning mechanism is at the jar level. You can't ask
a class file for it's version, so I can see repositories becoming
a nightmare mixture of new, aging and old classfiles. Old classes
may never get deleted from it?!?!? (OK if everything is a deb....).
cheers
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