Package: ibm-jdk1.1-installer Severity: wishlist Hi. There is currently a discussion on debian-java@lists.debian.org to tighten debian java policy regarding JNI libraries.
Specifically, the proposal is that all JNI libraries should be installed in /usr/lib/jni, and that /usr/lib/jni should be included in the default JNI search path by each JVM. There appears to be no serious objection to this proposal. A decent subset of this discussion, including the full proposal, can be found with the archives of bug #163390. The full discussion can be found by searching the debian-java archives for October and November 2002. The java policy maintainer has asked for wishlist bugs to be filed against the various JVMs as the next stage in moving this proposal forwards. Thus I'm requesting that your JVM be updated to include /usr/lib/jni in the default JNI library path. If you don't wish to modify the JVM sources directly and if your JVM supports -Djava.library.path=... as a way of specifying the JNI library path, you can use a simple wrapper script to implement this proposal. Such a wrapper script is included in the #163390 logs and is also available at: http://people.debian.org/~bab/java/jnifix It merely appends /usr/lib/jni to the JNI search path if it's not already included and passes everything on to the real java runtime. Thanks - Ben. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not nice music for your apartment. - Tori Amos, CNN Showbiz Today, 1998
