Re: java packaging

[Gabriele Giacone <losgarbo@libero.it>]

>   Hello,
Hi Vincent,
> 
> Gabriele Giacone wrote:
>> I'm packaging sweethome3d [1], a java application.
Ok, so my next email will start with:
'Hello,
I'm packaging a java application and some libraries' :)

>   The final jar can only contain the libraries for which the source code
> is in the original tarball. You'll have to remove all the binary .jars
> from the original tarball, as they are sourceless and therefore cannot
> be distributed by Debian, use the libraries already available for
> Debian, and package the ones which are necessary but not yet in Debian.
>   You must not use already packaged binaries. Never.
>   I know this sounds really painful (and it is) but this is the main
> drawback (and advantage as well) of Java: it is so easy to distribute
> libraries in the binary form that people forget that you don't have
> right to distribute a .jar file under GPL/LGPL without providing the
> appropriate source. Go fish for the latter !
Thanks for having remembered me the right way.
>   Welcome to the joy of Java packaging ;-)...
I'll package and publish it on mentors and I will ask a review to this
ml. Thanks.

Cheers,
Gabriele