Re: GNU/Linux Java Policy and Packaging

2007-06-18 Thread Marcus Better
Petteri Räty wrote: >> I don't know how Gentoo works, but it's not enough for us to know which >> ABI version of a particular dependency we need, we also need the mapping >> of that ABI to Debian packages to avoid upgrade problems. > > So you install to /usr/share/ as you need to have the ABI in t

Re: GNU/Linux Java Policy and Packaging

2007-06-18 Thread Petteri Räty
Marcus Better kirjoitti: > Petteri Räty wrote: >>> I think we will need something similar to the shlibs system, no? > >> Well why would they be any different for a binary distribution? > > I don't know how Gentoo works, but it's not enough for us to know which ABI > version of a particular depend

Re: GNU/Linux Java Policy and Packaging

2007-06-18 Thread Marcus Better
Petteri Räty wrote: >> I think we will need something similar to the shlibs system, no? > Well why would they be any different for a binary distribution? I don't know how Gentoo works, but it's not enough for us to know which ABI version of a particular dependency we need, we also need the mappin

Re: GNU/Linux Java Policy and Packaging

2007-06-18 Thread Petteri Räty
Marcus Better kirjoitti: > Petteri Räty wrote: >> We solved this by installing to /usr/share/- where slot is >> roughly the ABI (we increase it every time a new version breaks >> something using the library). > > For a binary distribution like Debian there are other issues, for instance > *how to

Re: GNU/Linux Java Policy and Packaging

2007-06-18 Thread Marcus Better
Petteri Räty wrote: > We solved this by installing to /usr/share/- where slot is > roughly the ABI (we increase it every time a new version breaks > something using the library). For a binary distribution like Debian there are other issues, for instance *how to generate dependencies on the correct