[Mageia-dev] Adding Java-Policy

Sun Jan 9 23:13:08 CET 2011

On 08.01.2011 11:39, Farfouille wrote:
+> Le 07/01/2011 10:55, Daniel Kreuter a écrit :
+>> As the actual policy is too old, who wants to write a new one describing the open jdk instead of gcj ?
+>> My experience in packaging is not too good to do that on my own.
+> hi,
+> I will be very interested at least to try. I propose to work on it until sunday evening and come back here with my attempt.
+
+My suggestion would be to look at how Mandriva packages are done, as we
+will probably initially follow their java policy.
+(note that the mandriva java packages do not have the gcj AOT binaries,
+and they are compiled with openjdk on archs were openjdk is available)
+
+I'm not saying that a completely new java packaging policy is not needed
+(it is), though, so if the java developers have the resources to convert
+all imported java packages to a completely new policy, I'm all for it :)
+
+There are around 400 java packages in Mandriva, though I hope we don't
+need to import all of them (i.e. hopefully many are unused/old).
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+