Re: Java Policy: /usr/share/java vs. /u/s/maven-repo

[Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib@drazzib.com>]

Le 04/08/2012 10:10, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
> Le 04/08/2012 09:59, Thomas Koch a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > do you think we should change the java policy and relax the requirement to
> > install java libraries to /usr/share/java in favour of /usr/share/maven-repo?
> >
> > At least I'd like to see a very strong recommends to install to /u/s/m-r. I
> > feel like having filled a dozen bugs against java libraries that did not honour
> > the debian maven repo but on which I depended.
> I don't think we should add in our policy a strong dependency on a build
> system and the paths it expects. It used to be ant, it is now Maven, it
> might change in the future.
>
> I would prefer to keep /usr/share/java. It is not tied to a specific tool.

I also support this: /usr/share/maven-repo is only an addition to 
/usr/share/java and not a replacement.

IIRC, Debian Java Policy actually require versionned JAR (ie. real file) 
to be installed into /usr/share/java and we should keep this.

Cheers,