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Bug#575447: lintian: Please add a warning in a .jar is not in /usr/share/java/



Le jeudi 25 mars 2010 à 21:45 +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> I am not sure I can support this. There has been an interest in allowing
> a package to install "private" jar files in /usr/share/<pkg>/.
> 
> Though jar files beneath /usr/lib/ is *usually* a problem (the swt jars
> are known exceptions). Though I think these are so rare that an override
> is in order for these. Adding a warning for jars beneath /usr/lib/ will
> cause a warning explosion in eclipse, but I am okay with that! I suspect
> quite a few of them can be moved to /usr/share/ and a lintian warning
> will serve as a good reminder of that.
I am not sure to follow you. In the first paragraph, you say you do not
agree and in the second, reading between the lines, I have the feeling
you think it might be relevant. Am I wrong ?

BTW, I am just asking for a warning, not an error ;)

Sylvestre





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