On 2012-10-31 13:30, Thomas Koch wrote: > Hi, > > gwt (google web toolkit) needs the sources jar of all external jar files it > should compile to javascript. Currently there's not a single package shipping > sources jars and the Maven Source Plugin isn't even packaged. >
Eclipse do (did?) have source jars though most them are (were?) in eclipse-pde. Though that does not contain jgit that you listed below. > So I need to add an ITP for the Source Plugin to the already impressive > dependency list of Gerrits ITP[1] and I need to patch the following packages > to also produce sources jars: > > - jgit > - gwtorm (still ITP) > - gwtjsonrpc (still ITP) > - gwtexpui (still ITP) > - geronimo-validation-1.0-spec > > Maven-Debian-Helper (or Repo-Helper?) needs to be patched not to exclude the > sources plugin by default and I think the dependency mangling also doesn't > work with the sources classifier. > > Now there're policy questions: > > Should there be separate binary packages for the sources jar? (I think so.) Maybe throw them in the -doc so we don't have to add "yet another binary package" to all of our source packages. > Should there be a standard place to put the sources jars? > ( e.g. /usr/share/java-sources ) Maybe /usr/share/java/sources/ so we don't add more dirs to /usr/share unless Fedora/etc. is using /usr/share/java-sources already. > Is there any preference from the eclipse packagers how to handle sources jars? I think it needs OSGi for Eclipse to pick it up and then it presumably have to be put in some /usr/lib/eclipse/dropins/X/plugins/Y.source_Z/ directory. Though I am guessing here, maybe Jakub Adam knows more. > Should the java policy recommend to also package sources jars? Recommend might be a bit strong. > Should there be a naming scheme for sources jars packages? Should there be > one > binary sources package for every Debian source package or should there be a > match to have one binary sources package for every Debian binary jar package? > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/589436 > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro > > If we do add them, we would keep the number to a "minimum", so at most one "source" binary or source package. Not sure about the naming scheme. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50912338.9080...@thykier.net
