Re: Bug#448286: java-common: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Almost all Java libraries should be in section libs.

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Michael Koch writes:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> > Package: java-common
> > Version: 0.26
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > in section 2.4 "Java libraries" it should be specified that packages
> > containing such libraries should belong to the 'libs' section and not
> > to the 'devel' section.
> > 
> > As Java libraries, to the difference of C libraries, are at 
> > the same time for runtime and development usage, they could be in both,
> > but as 85% of them are already in this section, it makes more sense to
> > make it consistent this way. Also, a java developer should know this,
> > where a java user might not expect libraries to be in devel.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> It would be better create an special 'java' section (as perl and python
> have there own sections too) but thats another issue.

afaics this needs some data (# of source packages for the new section,
# of binary packages for the new section), then a proposal for archive
admins.

please could somebody provide this information / package lists and
post it to debian-java?

I don't like having to change package sections twice.

  Matthias