Re: Repackaging question

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Marcus Better <marcus <at> better.se> writes:

> 
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> >  > It's a good idea to remove generated javadoc and jar files and classes.
> > 
> > Very much so.  Unless you build from source, you have no way to know
> > that the binaries correspond to that source code.  You can't even
> > guarantee that you're not violating the GPL, which requires you to
> > provide source code on demand.
> 
> That may be a valid argument, but there are more troubling cases. For
> 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?
> 

I'd suggest looking at whatever solution JPackage came up with, as well. 

I believe they (i.e. Ralph Apel) figured out how to package it in a way that it
uses the jars in the packaging system rather than whatever the default is
(network from ibiblio, I think), but I'm not sure.

cheers,
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