2014-04-15 17:40 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org>: > Hi Tony, > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 09:09:51PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > > >> So if there are Debian Java team members who have some preference why > > >> not recommending this in a policy document? For people who are > seldomly > > >> touching Java packages strict rules would be simply helpful. > > > > > > I guess there is a lack of consensus to turn this into a policy. That > > > sound like an excellent bikeshedding topic that could keep us busy > > > during the freeze :) > > > > My preference aligns with Emmanuel's - that is, use the upstream name > > for the source package, provided that it isn't so generic so as to be > > confusing or conflicting with other packages in the archive. > > > > However, I'm reluctant to suggest that we need a policy for this, > > because I don't want us to spend time renaming packages just so the > > source package names conform to an arbitrary policy. (However, > > documenting a recommendation would be nice.) > > +1 > > It is just to give uneducated Java packagers (like me) a helping hand > for best practices. I would not start renaming existing packages. > > > Having a policy for the > > library binary packages seems sufficient to catch most potential > > duplicates. If you want to want package foo.jar, you can start by > > looking for an existing libfoo-java. > > > > In any event, it's great that DebianMed is lending a helping hand. > > Continue to let us know what could be done better, and don't be shy > > about asking for pkg-java commit rights/Java Team membership. > > The point is that I feel quite incompetent with Java packaging. > However, we have some members in the Java team. Regarding the Debian > Med Java packages: Sometimes you need to decide where a package should > go to: If the application fits the Debian Med team and the programming > language is just Java you have to make a decision. In any case ACLs for > the Debian Med repository are set that any DD has commit permissions. >
I have put several packages in Debian Java though "working for" Debian Med. I usually go to Debian Java for Java libraries (even if med related), to get better support, later on, on JDK issues etc... Olivier > > In general we have never fight to keep a package in our repository > (there are similar cases for Perl, Python, Ruby etc.) So if you > think we could enhance something - please let us know. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > -- gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438
