On Tue Aug 04 10:19, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > I would like to know if I need to provide 3 libraries packages, one for > each .jar files > and how to name them. > > my proble is that the java policy explain thaht it could be preferable > to have only one package if the size of the .jar file are small. > > must > provide a version numbered version of the jar > like > jrpcgen-1.0.7.jar + a link jrpcgen.jar etc.. We are currently working on updating debian java policy, so a lot of this is likely to change.
That said, the criteria I would use for whether to have seperate packages would be whether the jars are useful by themselves or not. If you always need to have all three installed (they would depend on each other) then you might as well have them in a single package. If you can reasonably use them separately then it's nice for users not to have to install all of them if they are large. That said none of them are particularly large anyway. Currently policy requires naming jars like that, but this is certainly going to change. If you use javahelper to install them then you will get the correct naming scheme automatically and when we change you'll just have to rebuild the package (see http://wiki.debian.org/Java/Packaging). Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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