Re: Java Release goals for Jessie

Hey everybody,

I put my name under:

* Move icedtea-plugin (or eqv.) into java-common source package

My main reason is due to the fact that "icedtea-plugin" always seemed to be isolated from rest of the "java-common". What makes everything a lot worse is that it would not even be installed by default.

* Start packaging of OpenJDK-8 package. It is expected to next March/April.

I added my name along with note that collaboration would be more then welcome. For some time now I'm looking for an opportunity to get involved with OpenJDK, and packaging its latest version would be a thrill ride for me. Besides all, I'm in love with bleeding edge and this could definitely be a win win situation.

Please inform me if you have any additional questions or comments.

Adnan

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:

"Install the Java sources into the -doc packages as a .jar"

I'm not a big fan of this goal, the reasoning being the same as the one
driving the removal of the javadoc jars from the documentation packages
(#711852).

AFAIK the javadoc jar and the source jar are only useful to browse the
source from an IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ. But I doubt any sane
developer is going to point its IDE to /usr/share/maven-repo instead of
Maven central since the artifacts there are heavily tweaked to
facilitate the package building.

Am I missing an important use case for the source jars?

Emmanuel Bourg

Le 26/08/2013 20:19, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> During the last Debconf, Damien and I organized a BOF. During this BOF,
> we exchange on the various objectives for the Java team.
>
> We published the result of the discussions on the Debian Wiki:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Java/Goals
> Some tasks don't have a driver, don't hesitate to step in if you are
> interested.
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> Sylvestre & Damien
>
>