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Re: [remotetea] how to name packages ?



On Tue Aug 04 10:19, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:
> I would like to know if I need to provide 3 libraries packages, one for
> each .jar files
> and how to name them.
> 
> my proble is that the java policy explain thaht it could be preferable
> to have only one package if the size of the .jar file are small.
> 
> must
> provide a version numbered version of the jar
> like
> jrpcgen-1.0.7.jar + a link jrpcgen.jar etc..
 
We are currently working on updating debian java policy, so a lot of
this is likely to change.

That said, the criteria I would use for whether to have seperate
packages would be whether the jars are useful by themselves or not. If
you always need to have all three installed (they would depend on each
other) then you might as well have them in a single package. If you can
reasonably use them separately then it's nice for users not to have to
install all of them if they are large. That said none of them are
particularly large anyway.

Currently policy requires naming jars like that, but this is certainly
going to change. If you use javahelper to install them then you will get
the correct naming scheme automatically and when we change you'll just
have to rebuild the package (see http://wiki.debian.org/Java/Packaging).

Matt

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Matthew Johnson

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