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Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have noticed that almost ALL packages include external .jars in their
> internal lib directories. This *MUST* stop. Yesterday. Last year.
Don't be so extreme... nothing is black and white.
This is a practice that is unfortunately common in the Java world.
To solve it...
Can I debian package require a specific version of another package?
Specifically if I have a package foo can it require *only* libbar-1.1.3.deb ???
Due to the WORA nature of Java applications, a lot of projects assume they are
the only package management system in existence. For example a lot of the
Jakarta projects ship with a whole bunch of .jars which are both incompatible
across projects and in their own ./lib.
> Lots of 'external' jars are not redistributable. You can't even have them in
> the source package.
This is a separate issue for debian-legal.
> I will be filing bugs on all java packages this weekend that do this. I will
> not exclude non-free packages either. This is something that must stop, and
> we must not allow upstreams to do so either.
I seriously hope that we don't have packages with non-free libs. If this
happens it would be a big issue :(
Kevin
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