Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Emmanuel Bourg Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Splitting the Java policy from java-common Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:10:01 +0200 Message-ID: X-Original-To: Debian Java X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Tue Sep 22 11:03:02 2015 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.5 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.198, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -7 Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:subject:to:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ita6zjQxhjzIQ1Yxv+W3kfwpHCgBBdFkFgcYnjg/6VA=; b=OhbsVqJEH6kgkL31pEHB4pCeRv0KkE3XpiovQVOWUsgGK2I4Uch6eG9AmecLlxNn43 mEjRpn2ag0N5qGNdVzgsnseqcM8xhfXQcNmAtpLolkJJzIAO4ievulW/pb7xwWplOhev F9830kJA0uBv6UDXy/Mo8K7T6Vkrm0v9LFdbgnS6g5dowI0GFfuDSmnPByxVtTSRW35z mN1IA9wv1/xsIAyfYKFSDAnjenO7h9ImP5tP2gOt6c1GGWhw1JKSM5W4ZTNeRUxUgjNL WGq9cj54u8cdHce3zrAWcvLf6BW92PQqt18vOrovL3DkmNEcSHRcz/ODbtKq1QtSGylx 0sMw== X-Received: by 10.180.10.101 with SMTP id h5mr18065455wib.22.1442919766257; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 04:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/18672 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/56013554.6020608@apache.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 18 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway X-Original-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:02:44 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <56013554.6020608@apache.org> X-Original-Sender: Emmanuel Bourg Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:8358 Hi all, The src:java-common package currently contains: - the default-jre/jdk meta packages defining the default Java per architecture - the update-java-alternatives mechanism - the packaging policy for Java packages - the Java FAQ Including the Java policy in java-common is a bit odd, it means Java users automatically gets the policy documents on their systems, but this is only useful to people doing actual packaging work. I suggest moving it to a separate java-policy package. The FAQ could also be moved later to the wiki. What do you think? Emmanuel Bourg