Re: Repackaging question

[Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>]

Benjamin Mesing wrote:
> Generally speaking yes, but the Debian Java Policy suggests, that class
> files should be removed from upstream release [1].

That advice is plain wrong. (And it's not part of the actual Java policy as
the page says.)

Many Java packages come with jar files for dependencies, i.e. external code
where the source is not included in the upstream tarball. Such binaries
must be removed and the package should then get a +dfsg suffix.

However a .jar or .class file built from included source code should not be
removed (but obviously they must not be installed in Debian, but rather the
sources must be rebuilt).

Marcus