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
