Re: Base64.jar and zeus.jar

[Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org>]

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Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:38:47 +0800, 
Cai Qian <caiqian@gnome.org> wrote: 

> These 3 jar are not exist in Debian.
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 caiqian caiqian  1417 2004-04-11 22:12 Base64.jar
> -rw-r--r--  1 caiqian caiqian 82872 2004-07-12 23:55 shutter.jar
> -rw-r--r--  1 caiqian caiqian 96607 2004-04-26 13:57 zeus.jar
>
> You mean I have to make 3 separate packages as form libxxx-java, and
> then install them into /usr/share/java?

Yes.

> I found that Java Policy said "All jar files must have a well-documented
> CLASSPATH". What does that mean? I seems I never use CLASSPATH until a
> wrapper in /usr/bin call the following. 
> 
> /usr/bin/java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib \
>     -classpath /usr/share/java/shutter.jar: ...

You should write a README.Debian file with jars that must be present in
the classpath to use your lib. Some libs require other libs, but the
user can't guess so it's better to tell the user: if you use
libfoo-java, be sure to add libbar-java to the CLASSPATH.

Cheers,

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