On Wed Dec 16 04:28, Pablo Duboue wrote: > apt-get source is neither convenient nor reasonable, particularly with > jars that are the result of complex builds involving ant, maven, etc. > If there are -dbg for other libraries why they can't be -dbg for java > ones? Besides the source code, having the line number information, > methods, etc. makes a big difference when examining stack traces. Yes, and that's why we distribute jars compiled with -g not -g:none, so you get all of that anyway > The objective of packing java libraries is so people don't need to > fetch and compile them themselves. If we only provide stripped > libraries with no source they will be good for execution but not for > development. See above, policy (I thought?) says that we don't provide stripped libraries, since in Java it doesn't give much of a performance improvement, but it's very useful for things like debugging and (iirc?) eclipse completion. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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