On Oct 29 2004, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a > > post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. > > Great!
Yes, now with Free JVM in testing, one can work much more conveniently with PPower4 for generating presentations. I could never make other software like prosper work the way I wanted, which is why I keep on using PPower4 and wanted to see it packaged. > Only from a quick look, why orig.tar.gz contains only > pp2p.jar? I suspect style files (and documentation or > samples ?) could be also included. I received a feedback from Frank Küster on debian-mentors and I made some improvements to the package already. The problem was that upstream didn't include a tarball. All he distributes is the jar file, a wrapper shell script for calling the jar file (which I adapted to meet things that I would think that would be reasonable in Debian) and a bunch of style files. I also had to grab the manual separately. I now remade the orig.tar.gz to include all these items (the jar file, the wrapper shell script, the style files and the manual in PDF format as well as a minimal man page generated with help2man) and uploaded it again to my homepage: <http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/debian/> > I think it will make the package much useful if you > included documentation and samples. This is already corrected. > You should call texhash in postrm too, I guess. > (Uh, perhaps mktexlsr might be better than texhash, > the latter is now only a symlink of the former.) After Frank's comments, I fixed the package to call texhash on postrm (I had forgotten to include it). BTW, I didn't know that mktexlsr would be better than texhash. I will update the package with that in mind now. > # I don't know Java, sorry. I tried following what I found to be the Debian Sub-Policy on Java, but I am not sure that I got the things right, since I am quite new to Java (only started learning some small bits of Java when JVMs entered main in testing). I now would appreciate if developers from debian-java could shed some comments on the java-side packaging of PPower4. Thank you very much for your feedback, Rogério. P.S.: Please keep me on Cc's, if possible. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
