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On 07/09/15 00:24, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Am 06.09.2015 um 04:34 schrieb dean:
> 
> Hello dean,
> 
> welcome to Debian Java.
>

Thank you.

> Filing a wishlist bug report against bouncycastle and setting yourself
> as the owner of that bug is a good way to avoid double work and to
> inform people you are working on something. It is probably not too hard
> to use the experimental package as a base and upgrade to 1.52. The time
> consuming part is to check if all reverse-dependencies still build from
> source with 1.52 and to fix all those packages which are possibly broken
> with the latest version.
> 

I will get to this shortly.

>> Secondly package libbcprov-java-doc is supposed to install the api docs
>> but does not actually contain the the documentation. Should i file a bug
>> for this too?
> 
> Indeed this looks like a bug. libbcpg-java-doc does not contain any
> javadoc either.
> 
>> Is this as simple as including the javadoc's in the git
>> repo and building the package?
> 
> We always build the javadoc from source, so it is a matter of getting
> debian/rules right. You could try to rebuild the package and figure out
> why the documentation is missing. I can see there are different install
> targets which are supposed to move the documentation into the
> corresponding doc packages. Obviously two of them do not work as expected.
>


I just built libbcprov-java-doc from source with debuild and the doc's
were generated and installed. There were some doc errors but it worked.
I'll investigate further and report back.

> 
> Thanks for your interest in packaging Java software for Debian.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Markus
> 

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New guy with some questions dean <deanshannon3@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 04:40 +0200
  Re: New guy with some questions Markus Koschany <apo@gambaru.de> - 2015-09-06 16:30 +0200
    Re: New guy with some questions dean <deanshannon3@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 13:30 +0200
      Re: New guy with some questions tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org> - 2015-09-07 17:20 +0200
  Re: New guy with some questions Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2015-09-07 09:10 +0200
    Re: New guy with some questions dean <deanshannon3@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 13:30 +0200

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