Re: FOSDEM 19 Debian Java talk
Markus Koschany:
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> Am 30.01.19 um 11:10 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
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>> Great that you are giving that talk! I think the Java Team's work is
>> generally under-appreciated, so getting the word out should help with
>> that. Here's what I would add:
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>> I think one thing to mention is how the Debian Java Team has to
>> consistently fight the Java standard practice of bundling all deps into
>> a single JAR. This means there is no shared security updates, each dev
>> has to update every dependency themselves in that model. That works
>> great for large companies with staff devoted to doing that.
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>> For the majority of Debian use cases, that works poorly. Debian
>> delivers on the promise that people can just "apt install foo" and have
>> it work, and receive security updates. The user does not even need to
>> know what language the program is written in, it just works.
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>> Java developers need to learn the value of these use cases, and help
>> Debian by making it easier to package Java projects in the standard
>> distro method, with shared dependencies that are indepentently updated.
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> Thanks for your feedback. Yes, that's a very good point and I will
> mention it!
I thought it was worth a blog post too, as a follow up to your talk:
https://salsa.debian.org/publicity-team/bits/merge_requests/16
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