debian-java-faq seems to be pretty old -
Dear all,
I was reading
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/
and it seems the manual is pretty old and seems to have lot of oudated info.
For instance just at the beginning itself -
1.2 Location of this FAQ
This FAQ is published under the Debian Documentation Project at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/. The java-common
(available at http://packages.debian.org/java-common) provides an HTML
version for offline reading.
this is no longer true -
$ dpkg -L java-common
/.
/usr
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives
/usr/share
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/update-java-alternatives
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/java-common
/usr/share/doc/java-common/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/java-common/copyright
/usr/share/java
/usr/share/java/java_defaults.mk
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/update-java-alternatives.8.gz
I don't see any HTML or even SGML files in java-common.
even the subversion repo. is no longer there
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/ddp/manuals/trunk/java-faq/
the link should be -
https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/java-faq
then in chapter 2
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch2.en.html
.1 What full-fledged Java development platforms are available in Debian?
shouldn't stretch and jessie (as old-stable) details should be shared herein ?
2.3.1 Java 6 and 7
Shouldn't the whole info. need to be moved to 7 (old-stable) and 8 (stable)
2.4.2 Is there a good example Debian package?
The alioth info. is obsolete, links for the appropriate salsa team
perhaps be more appropriate.
What tools are available to make maintaining a Java packages easier?
Even the debhelper version shared is obsolete. Stable has dh10 and
testing has dh11
Same is for chapter 3
$ update-java-alternatives --list
unfortunately now update-java-alternatives needs sbin
$ update-java-alternatives --list
Command 'update-java-alternatives' is available in
'/usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives'
The command could not be located because '/usr/sbin' is not included
in the PATH environment variable.
This is most likely caused by the lack of administrative priviledges
associated with your user account.
update-java-alternatives: command not found
Same is with chapter 4, all versions shared are outdated.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch4.en.html
Even chapter 5 needs to update to icedtea-8-plugin and share stretch as stable.
Shouldn't chapter 6 talk about tomcat8
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch6.en.html
Chapter 7 talks about java-policy but there is no such documentation
in java-common
$ dpkg -L java-common
/.
/usr
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives
/usr/share
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/update-java-alternatives
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/java-common
/usr/share/doc/java-common/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/java-common/copyright
/usr/share/java
/usr/share/java/java_defaults.mk
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/update-java-alternatives.8.gz
Even the link https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/
seems to have outdated info. it doesn't even seem to have a time-stamp
to denote when it was last touched and written :(
Maybe somebody can do the needful and make it more current so I can
share the documentation with newcomers when somebody asks me .
I am willing to help in my own small way whatever I know off-list if
somebody decides to take this up although the debian-java team may
perhaps be a better guide as they know what is best, although am
willing to share on email as have shared above.
Look forward to seeing java documentation perhaps a bit more up-to-date.
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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