Re: Getting a Java package in the distribution?

["D.Hansmann" <hansmann.d@debitel.net>]

Cool, thanks for the tips, everybody! :)

I'll work on the package and fix it soon! Integrating the ant build 
process seems interesting too, even if i don't know why somebody should
build a java package from source (without changing it before)? There
probably won't be a speed improvement... ;)


Andreas Schmitz wrote:
> Jan Schulz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> > > This package can't be in main, since the source code is not included (at 
> > > least not extracted). Even if it was correctly included and used to 
> > > build the JAR, 
>
>
> > Does it need to be extracted? The problem with java source packages
> > are usually, that they are not a least conform with the format which
> > dpkg-source likes, so almost ever java package I've seen (including my
> > own...) has a 'uncompress-stamp' in debian/rules and justs puts the
> > upstream file somwhere and and build a orig.tar.gz by hand.
>
>
> Well, I don't know very much about Debian packaging at all, but I
> packaged one Java program (which is using j2sdk1.4.*). It builds itself
> using dpkg-buildpackage or apt-get -b source so feel free to have a look
> at it. (Most of it I learned from the ant package, so having a look at
> it would be a good thing.)
>
> http://cdox.sf.net
>
> or
>
> deb ftp://sammael.tabu.stw-bonn.de/pub/debian/ testing contrib
> deb-src ftp://sammael.tabu.stw-bonn.de/pub/debian/ testing contrib
>
> Beware, it won't be online too long the next time (I'll be moving
> probably, and so is the server).
>
> Regards, Andreas