* Emmanuel Bourg: > My reasoning is the following: > - The binary package must be built from the source > - This is currently done with a fairly sophisticated make file
True for CDBS, with the main problem there being that CDBS is neither appropriately documented nor particularly debuggable. IMO things are not so bad for Debhelper 7+. > - We are free to use the build tools we want (is that correct?) > - So Maven or Ant could be used instead I am too lazy to look it up in the policy right now... but I believe that debian/rules has to be a Makefile and support certain defined goals. > - Java developers let jdeb build their packages (with Ant or Maven) > > Would that work? You still have a proper source package, but the hard > work is delegated to Maven/Ant. How is the changelog and the copyright file generated? > Most of the information used by jdeb is actually pulled from the POM, so > that doesn't help much. How is the version number for the .deb generated? > But the maintainer scripts and the configuration files could be > reused. Yes! > In my opinion the main "selling point" of jdeb is to let Java developers > take care of the packaging of their own applications or libraries with a > tool close to their current tool chain (Maven or Ant). Yeah. Debian developers are probably not really part of the target audience. > They don't have to learn all the subtleties of the Debian packaging > tools. That's an opportunity to distribute the load of packaging Java > softwares for Debian over a broad range of developers instead of > relying on a small set of experts. Frankly, I see most of the opportunity in improvements of mh_make and mh_* tools. If mh_make can be made to leverage some of the work that has gone into jdeb, that would be great. At the moment I think that the maven-debian-helper documentation has the most room for improvements. I am even willing to try writing some, but I need help from somebody who knows the tools. Cheers, -Hilko -- 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/87620kxs1a....@msgid.hilluzination.de
