Re: STOP INCLUDING EXTERNAL JARS IN YOUR JAVA PACKAGES!
Ainsi parlait Andrew Pimlott :
> Upstream Java developers bundle all their dependencies because Sun
> hasn't given them any alternatives, and that is understandable (on
> the developers' part, not Sun's!). But this is Debian, and we have
> standards and conventions for our packages, so we should do better.
> This might cause some difficulty in building packages, and may
> require educating upstream developers, but it will be worth it.
I like the formule :-)
BTW, we (jpackage project) had in mind something as a "make packagers happy
HOWTO" we could submit to apache java developpers. Maybe we could join our
efforts there ?
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Guillaume Rousse <rousse@ccr.jussieu.fr>
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