Re: Request for review
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Matthew Johnson <mjj29@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue Mar 24 18:53, Dominik Smatana wrote:
>> > For the dependency on the library we are now requesting that
>> > libraries do not depend on runtimes at all.
>>
>> Fixed in r8112, I think "Debian policy for Java" (
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/x105.html )
>> should be updated to stop confusing newbie packagers like me :)
>
> Yeah, it's on the list of things to do at debconf.
>
>> > Because we want repeatability you also need to ensure that you always
>> > use the same javac to build, no matter what the alternative is. Since
>> > you are manually compiling and jaring, may I suggest javahelper, which
>> > has a module to do this for you (and also a bunch of other useful
>> > things). There is documentation in the javahelper package.
>
> You still don't explicitly set which javac and jar program you are
> using. You must use /usr/lib/jvm/default-jdk/bin/javac instead of javac
> (or whichever path you are using). Also, I think the recommended depend
> is actually default-jdk-builddep (I always forget that).
Setting JAVA_HOME is the preferred way instead of using complete path for javac.
default-jdk-builddep is to be used only when you are also creating a
-gcj binary package.
By the way, I am not sure how well javahelper and cdbs go. But if you
write a small ant build script (if you are familiar with ant) then the
ant/cdbs combo will make life easier.
Onkar
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