Best practices for Java libraries (When to split documentation)

Stefan Gybas sgybas@debian.org
Tue Feb 8 07:08:02 2005


Wolfgang Baer wrote:

> The Java policy doesn't specify the javadoc handling. Is there a
> common sense in pkg-java project when to split an own -doc package
> out ?

That's your decision, like for regular packages. If the docs are small, 
don't split them.

> The library is in public domain except two classes. It's no problem
> to remove this classes and therefore also two inheriting classes.

If those two classes are not DFSG-free you need to remove them from the 
source package if you want your package in main or contrib. What's the 
license for these classes?

Stefan