Handling native libs within a Virtual Machine

2006-08-21 Thread Tom Marble
All: Current Debian Java Policy [1] in section "Chapter 2.1: Virtual Machines" stipulates "If a virtual machine supports native code, it must include the directory /usr/lib/jni in its search path for these dynamic libraries." There is no rationale given for this policy choice and I fail to see th

Re: Java policy change proposal: runtime/compiler selection

2006-08-21 Thread Tom Marble
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Currently, there is update-java-alternatives in java-common to manage > the various java commands and how they refer to which implementation. > People can however ignore it and update-alternatives themselves, things > can get out-of-sync, and how to set priorities is

Re: Bug#382995: ITP: nekohtml -- HTML parser for Java

2006-08-21 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcus Better wrote: > Robert Schuster wrote: >> first: I think this discussion fits better on the debian-java list. :) > > Why? It's about specific policies listed on the pkg-java web pages. pkg-java-maintainers is for the bug reports, not for the d