Re: lintian: [new check] verify that JAR filename complies with Debian Java Policy
On 07/07/2015 01:13 PM, Guillaume Turri wrote:
> 2015-07-07 15:26 GMT+02:00 tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>:
>> On 07/07/2015 04:15 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
>>> Le 06/07/2015 06:36, tony mancill a écrit :
>>>
>>>> This warning is useful because
>>>> some components of the Debian Java toolchain fail when JAR files don't
>>>> comply with the naming policy.
>>>> [...]
>>
>> I proposed the check as a result of this thread [1]. At least mh_make
>> is failing, and perhaps there are others that will silently fail in this
>> context.
>>
>> [...]
>> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2015/06/msg00009.html
>
> Hi,
>
> I may be wrong; but I think I experienced this issue not because of
> the case of the jar, but because of the case of the pom installed by
> maven-repo-helper.
> In particular, the fix was only [1] to change
> debian/libaxmlrpc-java.poms like this
>
> -pom.xml --usj-name=aXMLRPC
> +pom.xml --usj-name=axmlrpc
>
> Moreover, I now use mh_make to build my dependency aXMLRPC (instead of
> java_helper + maven-repo-helper). It builds a jar which is not in
> lowercase; but I can run mh_make successfully afterwards.
Good to know that you were able to get past it, and maybe the check
isn't worthwhile now that I see how many packages are violating it.
Cheers,
tony
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