On Sunday 13 March 2005 22:05, Wolfgang Baer wrote: > But just for discussion - wouldn't there be a third possibility ? > (Sorry if this is a stupid question !). > > What about a creating a second source package which build-depends > on the java source package to produce the native binary. This wouldn't > hit the buildds, but put the burden onto the maintainer as he has to > achieve that both source packages are in sync. The binary source package > therefore wouldn't include any source only the rules file to produce a > -jbi package. > > I don't know if this is reasonable / possible ? Is there something > like source package dependencies in debian atm ?
Hmmm, the idea has its merits. Implementationwise, it'd make more sense to have $lib-jbi Build-Depend on $lib-java. The $lib-jbi would have to be a sperate source, but I imagine that cuold be a very small standard template, which fetches most of it information via grep-dcrtl at build-time, thus being essentially the same for all -jbi packages out there. Both can be uploaded at the same time, the buildds can sort it out for themselves. Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir über ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15
