Re: [Debian-Java] Bits from the FOSDEM

2006-03-08 Thread Charles Fry
> >We have some proposals about the Debian-Java policy changes that > > includes: > > > - java libraries can go to main if they can be built with free VM; Does this also mean that it is no longer required that a library be runnable from a free VM? My libbcprov-java builds just fine, but the t

Re: Bits from the FOSDEM

2006-03-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Florian Weimer] >> "can be built" or "are built"? AFAICS, only the latter complies >> with the letter of the policy and the spirit of the DFSG. > > How are you to see the difference? debian/rules actually compiles the source code, and does not simply copy JAR files arou

Re: Bits from the FOSDEM

2006-03-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Florian Weimer] > "can be built" or "are built"? AFAICS, only the latter complies > with the letter of the policy and the spirit of the DFSG. How are you to see the difference? I assume the build-dependencies will point to the free tools needed to built it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: [Debian-Java] Bits from the FOSDEM

2006-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Arnaud Vandyck: > > >> We have some proposals about the Debian-Java policy changes that >>includes: > > >>- java libraries can go to main if they can be built with free VM; > > > "can be built" or "are built"? AFAICS, only the latter complies with > the letter of

Re: [Debian-Java] Bits from the FOSDEM

2006-03-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Arnaud Vandyck: >We have some proposals about the Debian-Java policy changes that > includes: > - java libraries can go to main if they can be built with free VM; "can be built" or "are built"? AFAICS, only the latter complies with the letter of the policy and the spirit of the DFSG. --

Re: Packaging Maven 2 - shipping binaries for bootstrapping.

2006-03-08 Thread Trygve Laugstøl
Hi Philipp, I tried to package Maven 2 last summer and you seem to have gotten as far as I was back then so let me give you a small braindump. You seem to have found some of the depdencies that Maven needs to build itself, but there is a whole lot more of them. You can drop a few of them if you s

Re: Java policy draft; a road map proposal...

2006-03-08 Thread Pierre Métras
Hello list, Having read the new Draft page, read again another time many pages on the wiki, in the Java FAQ and in the Java Policy, the java-common bugs, I still stay with the feeling that there is no clear roadmap for Java in Debian, beginning with the Java Policy. Information is available, h