make-jpkg not working with current Java 1.6 & Faking Java on Linux Distros

2006-04-29 Thread Blackwell
Hello. 1) Too work intense approach to integrate Sun Java? Someone reported at freenode's ##java that make-jpkg does not work with Java 1.6. I wonder why that is? Isn't it so that regardless of what is contained in a Sun JDK/JRE archive that you need to extract all of it, maintaining the fo

Bug#365408: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Drop java*-runtime/compiler, create classpath-jre/jdk and java-jre/jdk

2006-04-29 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Vandyck wrote: [...] > One of the result of our discussions in Oldenburg (devjam) and in > Bruxelles (FOSDEM) is about the use of the virtual packages. I forgot to thanks Wolfgang Baer, Michael Koch, Matthias Klose, Stefan Gybas, Ben Burton and

Bug#365408: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Drop java*-runtime/compiler, create classpath-jre/jdk and java-jre/jdk

2006-04-29 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 package: java-common version: 0.24 Hi all, One of the result of our discussions in Oldenburg (devjam) and in Bruxelles (FOSDEM) is about the use of the virtual packages. One of our reflexion was the number in the java*-runtime and java*-compiler was

Bug#363165: [PROPOSAL] drop version number from jar installations

2006-04-29 Thread Thomas Girard
Barry Hawkins wrote: [...] I think you make some excellent points here. In your initial message, I thought you were advocating the dropping of version numbers and not trying to do anything else, which I would consider reckless and unwise. Adopting a solution for languages that have a longer h