New packages

[Michael Koch]

Hello,


On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:48:50AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:17:10AM +0200, Stephan Wienczny wrote:
> > I don't know how active upstream is. These packages are just dependencies for 
> > openfire. Openfire upstream includes these libraries in their package and if 
> > I'm correct these files will have to be removed from the upstream tarball to 
> > be suitable for debian.
> 
> If that is the case, then, I think, Michael may consider them, under
> the assumption that you agree to care for these packages! ;-)

Right.

> > I've got some questions about packaging java packages for debian. Which jre do 
> > you depend on and how/where is JAVA_HOME defined?
> 
> I always prefer the `free' GCJ based one. To use it, the steps are:
> 
> 1. Build-Depend on java-gcj-compat-dev.
> 2. Depend on java-gcj-compa.

"java-gcj-compat"

If the software runs with a JRE. Some software needs an JDK replacement
and then please use java-gcj-compat-dev. Please also allow alternatives
to to satisfy the depends by using

"java-gcj-compat | java1-runtime | java2-runtime"

> 3. Use JAVA_HOME as /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj.


Cheers,
Michael