On Tue Oct 28 14:19, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > Wouldn't it make sense to "police" this? i.e. to state that all packages > > should be explicitly compiled with 1.5 source/target unless they use 6's > > features? > It is a good idea. Some information are missing in the current Java > Policy. > > A few others things: > * use java-wrappers should be recommended when it is possible or jarwrapper, which should Just Work in all simple cases. (depend on jarwrapper, set +x on jar. The former will be done for you if you use javahelper and jh_depends) > * having OpenJDK in Debian changes things > > I am not sure how hard it would be but lintian should be updated to > handle Java libraries/applications. > For now, I have the feeling that Lintian not doing much with Java. First though I think we need to change how we handle Java libraries. We currently have no clear way to handle API/ABI changes in upstream libraries like C libraries would do. I'm also still convinced we need to mandate the use of Class-Path: entries in manifests to avoid transitions in rdeps when you update your dependencies. When any decision on how to handle these are made, I'm happy to update javahelper to make it easier to package these things. I need to add support for getting the classfile version out of the jars and depend on the correct version of javaX-runtime as the alternate dependency automatically. It would also be good to add cdbs support, since most java packagers seem to use that, but I could do with some help on that, since I don't understand cdbs or how to add things to it. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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