Re: lib-openxml-java is precompiled only: is this a bug?
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Should policy explicitly deprecate this methodology? I am
> inclined to think so, but I'm willing to be taught the error of my
> ways.
We already had this discussion on Debian-Java last year but did not find
a solution there. I also have a package that just copies a jar archive to
the .deb (gnujsp) because there could be some incompatibilities or even
bugs (the early versions of jikes produced buggy code for gnujsp).
I then decided to just copy the .jar so I distribute the same classes as
the upstream authors and I am sure that upstream bugs are really upstream
bugs and not my fault.
I got a lot of bug reports about gnujsp in private mail that could all be
solved by switching from kaffe to Sun's oder IBM's JDK - I don't want to
think about the number of incompatibilies or bugs we could introduce by
compiling your classes with kaffe/classpath (and Debian would surely prefer
to use free tools to compile packages).
--
Stefan Gybas
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