On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 04:16:11PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Your package does not comply with the proposed Debian Java policy, > which I intend to formally propose as a goal for potato. Therefore, could > you: > > - make it compliant or, > - explain why (it can be an error in the Policy, which I would like to > fix). > > More specifically, guavac fails because: > > - it doesn't depend on java-common, as it should, > - it doesn't provide java-compiler, as it should, > - it depends on a CLASSPATH to find the core classes, therefore violating > Debian Policy 3.8 (hence the 'normal' severity instead of 'wishlist').
Thanks for the report Stephane. My maintainership of guavac dates from the hamm days -- I took it on because it needed to be built for libc6, and it was currently abandoned. I don't use it -- I've only just started with Java and, I confess, I've just stuck with Sun's JDK to do it. I've offered guavac for adoption on debian-java before without success. I do not know when I will have time to fix this bug -- I welcome patches from anyone interested enough to do the work. Although it does indeed provide java-compiler, you are incorrect there. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
