Bug#227594: [PROPOSAL] Remove binfmt_misc, specify JARs for programs

2004-01-13 Thread Ben Burton
Hi. > Applications must provide one or more executable wrapper script(s) in > /usr/bin. They must run without specific environment variables (see > Policy 10.9), for instance JAVA_HOME or CLASSPATH. They must respect the > Policy rules for executables (for instance a manual page per executable

Re: Common packaging: Wiki Site created

2004-01-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lun 12/01/2004 à 23:42, Jan Schulz a écrit : > Hallo! > > As a result of Dalibor Topic's effort to get some common goals and > needs from all the different java packagers, I got a Wiki to get the > brainstorming startet. > > Please add your thoughts to the pages, describing, what you have and

Bug#227594: [PROPOSAL] Remove binfmt_misc, specify JARs for programs

2004-01-13 Thread Stefan Gybas
Package: java-common Version: 0.22 Severity: wishlist I propose to change the following paragraphs in section 2.3 of the Debian Java policy > Programs must have executable(s) in /usr/bin and be executable. They > can be Java classes (using binfmt_misc) or wrappers. In any case, they > must run with

Bug#227587: [PROPOSAL] Java library dependencies

2004-01-13 Thread Stefan Gybas
Package: java-common Version: 0.22 Severity: wishlist I propose to change the following paragraph in section 2.4. of the Debian Java policy > Java libraries must depend on the needed runtime environment > (java1-runtime and/or java2-runtime) but should not depend (only > suggest) java-virtual-mac

Getting Kaffe into testing, was Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.3-0.2 (powerpc source)

2004-01-13 Thread Stefan Gybas
Dalibor Topic wrote: For other platforms, we essentially need more developers native on those platforms to look into the compiler warnings, and fix them (easy step one, I guess), and try to fix the crashes (using a prebuilt rt.jar, and running the regression test suite, for example). Let's assu