Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

@Markus and @Wookey. Thanks for the pointers. I knew that there would be some good places too look just wasn't sure I was finding the correct / most appropriate things. Thanks again... I'll keep in touch. David On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Markus Koschany wrote: > [Dropping debian-devel f

Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

[Dropping debian-devel from CC. debian-java is the right place to ask these questions] On 04.10.2016 06:23, David Myers wrote: [...] > So my initial questions are : > > Is there a preference for which plugin should be used for gradle builds > within the debian project ? We recommend to use gradl

Re: Tomcat 8.5 packaging

On 03.10.2016 11:10, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: [...] > What do you think? I agree that reusing the existing Tomcat 8 package and packaging Tomcat 8.5 for Stretch would be the best way forward, especially for long term maintainability. Markus signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

On 2016-10-04 08:23 +0400, David Myers wrote: > Hello all. Welcome, more people helping out is good. > I have just taken on a task of creating a deb package for an open source Java > based project (runs in Tomcat or other embeded container). I can't answer most of your questions, but people at