Re: additions to java-policy

[Jan Schulz <jasc.usenet@gmx.de>]

Hallo T.,

* T. Alexander Popiel wrote:
>>Java library have a versioned package dependency on this libraray? E.g. 
>>if I use the current /usr/share/java/xalan-2.5.0.jar in my package how 
>>should my dependency look?
>I'd tend to go with #5, until the version number is formally moved
>into the package name (to allow multiple versions to be installed
>concurrently).

I agree with this. IMO a java jar should be handled the same as a
binary lib ad should get API Version (~SONAME) included in its name.

Thats also the way I've created the latest eclipse SWT libs:
libswt2.1-[motif-|gtk2-]java.

Jan
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