Re: Current status of your swt-gtk package
2005/10/2, Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de>:
> Hello Shaun,
>
> as we spoke some time ago you wanted to get your swt-gtk packages to
> testing and then supersede them by the ones generate from the new
> Eclispe 3.1 (3.1.1 in the meanwhile). My packages are ready and
> gracefully work as a replacement to your packages. While doing this work
> I checked your package and saw that it violates the Debian Java Policy
> in more then one way. Sure, the things are easy to fix. I just wonder if
> you or we should put work into this and then throw it away later.
>
> At DevJam meeting I spoke with several people about the situation.
> They all think we should replace the existing swt-gtk package as soon as
> possible to give it enough time to stabilize and get testing through a big
> userbase before the next release of Debian. Whenever that will happen.
>
> What's your opinion about this now?
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
Billy Biggs, an SWT developer, is working on producing a separate SWT
source package.
2005/9/14, Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>:
> I'm dorking away at the autoconf'ed SWT download now. It's going
> well, won't be hard, etc etc. I did take a look at the SWT package of
> 3.1 and have a bunch of quick comments.
When this work is complete and SWT is its own package, I believe it
would be best to maintain SWT in its own proper Debian source package.
If you would like to expand on the Debian Java Policy violations, I
would be happy to hear them.
Cheers,
Shaun
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