Re: Repackaging question

[Benjamin Mesing <bensmail@gmx.net>]

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Hello,

> It's preferable to leave the package contents exactly as upstream, and just
> repackage into a tarball. In that case you don't need to tag the orig
> filename.

Generally speaking yes, but the Debian Java Policy suggests, that class
files should be removed from upstream release [1]. Since for UMLet I
have a zip which contains a jar which contains class files and sources I
am not sure how to handle that case.

Regards Ben



[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/c173.html