Greg Wilkins wrote: > Paul Cager wrote: >> On Thu, November 8, 2007 09:33, Greg Wilkins wrote: >>> The ant task then goes on to run dpkg-buildpackage and >>> dpkg-deb in order to create libjetty6-java and jetty6 >>> packages. >> These are quite low-level tools, and you might be making more work for >> yourself than is necessary. > > Those are the tools that the maint-guide uses - so I just followed that.
Woops. Sorry, you're right. > So I'm going to push ahead with my approach to get binary packages for > most of Jetty (and then hightide). That will allow us to test the > layout and make sure it is all OK. Sounds good to me. > Do you know of any other java packages out there that are being > built with maven? I know the challenge there will be to stop > maven downloading dependencies and only use ones installed from > other deb packages. It would be invaluable to follow the work > of others in this regard. Although there is a Maven package in Debian, at the moment it's not possible to build Debian packages with Maven. There are a number of Maven plugins we need to package before that's possible. In the mean time you might be able to create an ant build file... Not nice, I know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]