Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-13 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Monday 13 May 2002 03:22, Jim Pick wrote: > Sounds like Debian could use the same solution for gcj that Debian uses > for emacs -> just distribute the .java files and do the ahead-of-time > compilation (.java to .so) at install time. Is this automatic enough > under gcj so that this could that

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sunday 12 May 2002 22:00, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:40:05PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > I disagree on that class files should be placed in a -dev package for the > > same reason as I want every jar file to be placed in /usr/share/java > > (maybe with an exception for

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sunday 12 May 2002 21:32, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:13:35PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > On Sunday 12 May 2002 21:11, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > > Only if your binary package can run with free virtual machines (like > > > kaffe, libgcj,

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sunday 12 May 2002 21:11, Egon Willighagen wrote: > Only if your binary package can run with free virtual machines (like kaffe, > libgcj, ORP and KissMe), it may go into main. Otherwise, it must go into > non-free, or in contrib if your package itself is free. Better: Only if yo

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Sunday 12 May 2002 17:11, Nic Ferrier wrote: > Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your binary package can run only with non-free virtual machines > (the only free Java virtual machine seems to be kaffe - and the one > included in libgcj), it cannot go to main. If your package i

Re: Bug#99324: Default charset should be UTF-8

2001-06-02 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Saturday 02 June 2001 18:33, Peter Novodvorsky wrote: > Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 1.VI.2001 at 14:00 Marco d'Itri wrote: > > The real problem of Unicode is that still there is not enough support > > for it. And at least for a few years 8-bit encodings are going to be >

Bug#96629: 3.2 and 2.3 package naming not synchronized

2001-05-07 Thread Egon Willighagen
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.2.0 Severity: normal Currently, sections 3.2.1 and 2.3.1 both give rules for package naming. The latter is, however, more strict, and both use different terminology. I suggest these two get synchronized and both be evenly strict. I checked the version on the we

Re: the math section should really be science

2001-03-11 Thread Egon Willighagen
Op zondag 11 maart 2001 07:20, schreef Drew Parsons: > I therefore wonder if it would not be more appropriate to call this > subsection "science" rather than "math" ? I agree. That would make sense. /Me is also a chemist, and noticed this before. I think science/math and science/social etc would b