Re: guidelines for making Java software easy to package for debian?

2000-10-05 Thread brlewis
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A sort of automake for Debian/Java? Nice idea but which has implications > upstream. I suppose the ideal thing to do would be to have the GNU coding standards updated to address the issues re. installing Java programs, and to change automake to i

Re: guidelines for making Java software easy to package for debian?

2000-10-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 5 October 2000, at 8 h 38, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I had a document that said exactly how it should work, I could set up > Kawa and BRL s.t. a change in the Java policy only means a change in the > configure directives; ... > maintainers, while letting the rest

Re: guidelines for making Java software easy to package for debian?

2000-10-05 Thread brlewis
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Some standard would be helpful to assist in debian packaging, e.g. > > standard configure directives to specify repository vs. jar place, or > > standard install targets. What would make it easy? > > Please be more specific because the policy a

Re: guidelines for making Java software easy to package for debian?

2000-10-05 Thread brlewis
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A sort of automake for Debian/Java? Nice idea but which has implications upstream. I suppose the ideal thing to do would be to have the GNU coding standards updated to address the issues re. installing Java programs, and to change automake to imp

Re: guidelines for making Java software easy to package for debian?

2000-10-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 5 October 2000, at 8 h 38, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I had a document that said exactly how it should work, I could set up > Kawa and BRL s.t. a change in the Java policy only means a change in the > configure directives; ... > maintainers, while letting the rest

Re: guidelines for making Java software easy to package for debian?

2000-10-05 Thread brlewis
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Some standard would be helpful to assist in debian packaging, e.g. > > standard configure directives to specify repository vs. jar place, or > > standard install targets. What would make it easy? > > Please be more specific because the policy

Re: guidelines for making Java software easy to package for debian?

2000-10-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 3 October 2000, at 14 h 10, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Packaging Debian software for Java is still somewhat confusing for me, Yes. > and policy seems to be in flux. It is, by lack of sufficient consensus or by lack of brute strenght from the editor. > Some standar

Re: guidelines for making Java software easy to package for debian?

2000-10-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 3 October 2000, at 14 h 10, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Packaging Debian software for Java is still somewhat confusing for me, Yes. > and policy seems to be in flux. It is, by lack of sufficient consensus or by lack of brute strenght from the editor. > Some standa