Java 1 and 2

2006-04-07 Thread Charles Fry
There was a recent message about Java 1 versus 2 runtimes in Provides (if I remember correctly). I've brought this up before, suggesting that those two be combined. Is there any reason not to combine the java-runtime and java-compiler virtual packages? If not I suggest that we proceed to do so. ch

Re: Purpose of version number install jar installation

2006-04-07 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barry Hawkins wrote: > I can think of a couple of reasons why numbered versions > of .jar files are used: > > 1.) Java(TM) libraries have a notorious tendency > (not unlike other languages) to not preserve > backward compatibility between sign

Re: SVN for dummy java packagers...

2006-04-07 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Gybas wrote: > Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > >> 2. svn-buildpackage --svn-tag creates tags which are not compliant >> with the Java packager instructions hosted somewhere (I lost track of >> this page), i.e. it's X.Y.Z-N instead of RELEASE_X_Y

Re: SVN for dummy java packagers...

2006-04-07 Thread Stefan Gybas
Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: 2. svn-buildpackage --svn-tag creates tags which are not compliant with the Java packager instructions hosted somewhere (I lost track of this page), i.e. it's X.Y.Z-N instead of RELEASE_X_Y_Z-N. Do you see this as an issue? Thanks for your work. IIRC this was bec

Re: SVN for dummy java packagers...

2006-04-07 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > > Until recently, I had never used SVN and had to learn it quite quickly, > so I created myself a list of important commands. > I've put this list in its raw state under > http://wiki.debian.org/Java/JavaSvn. Than