Re: Repackaging question
Matthias Klose wrote:
> Marcus Better writes:
>> instance we ship a lot of packages that build with Maven, but since we
>> don't have Maven in Debian, we use the included, pre-generated, Ant build
>> file instead. What should we do about those?
>
> if these packages are in main, file a RC report and remove them, at
> least from testing.
That's a bit drastic, no? Those packages are no different from packages with
pre-generated configure scripts and the like, and those are accepted in
main, IIRC.
> Then package maven and maven2.
"Good idea, why don't you try it?", to quote someone on -project
recently. :-)
Actually I'm planning to have a go at those, but they are rather
complicated.
> which packages are these?
AFAICT, all of Jakarta Commons, dom4j, jaxen, and probably a lot more. Plus
upcoming Tomcat 6. Remove those (especially Commons) and we might as well
forget the Java support in Debian.
A mass bug filing of wishlist bugs, with an appropriate usertag, would be a
good first step though.
Marcus
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