Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Thorsten Glaser Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Re: Is it possible to have multiple versions of a java-lib installed? Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:50:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Debian Java Maintainers X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Tue Jan 16 23:46:18 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.99 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MURPHY_DRUGS_REL8=0.02, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: DYN_NJABL=SKIP(0) NOT_IN_SBL_XBL_SPAMHAUS=-1.5 NOT_IN_BL_NJABL=-1.5 CL_IP_EQ_HELO_IP=-2 (check from: .tarent. - helo: .mail.lixid. - helo-domain: .lixid.) FROM/MX_MATCHES_NOT_HELO(DOMAIN)=0; rate: -5 X-X-Sender: tglase@tglase.lan.tarent.de User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) Content-Language: de-DE-1901 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/20639 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/alpine.DEB.2.21.1801170040270.8697@tglase.lan.tarent.de Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 41 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: Steinar Bang X-Original-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:45:59 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <86a7xd7lr4.fsf@dod.no> <4fff8acf-c24b-3dfa-6815-87f21400e0bb@apache.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:10263 Hi Steinar, > Le 16/01/2018 =C3=A0 18:32, Steinar Bang a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0: > > Is it possible to have multiple versions of a java library, like eg. > > https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libjna-java > > installed simultanously? > Yes this is possible for some exceptional cases by cloning the source let=E2=80=99s just make it clear that those cases are *exceptional*, and no= t the default as is often done in the =E2=80=9Cwild outside=E2=80=9D Java=E2= =84=A2 world where that=E2=80=99s the knee-jerk reaction to=E2=80=A6 > Do you have a compatibility issue with libjna-java? =E2=80=A6 those. It=E2=80=99s much preferrable to have only one, or (in general) as few as possible versions of a library in the archive so every user gets all the (security, but also other) fixes of new uploads (either a new upstream version or possibly just a Debian change). So if at all possible if there=E2=80=99s a problem with the version in Debian, either the program or the library in Debian should be patched to work well with each other (heck, or possibly both), while not breaking other users of the library. Yes, this is more work at first, but it pays off when there is an urgent fix to get out. bye, //mirabilos --=20 tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstra=C3=9Fe 2-4, D-53123 Bonn =E2=80=A2 http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 =E2=80=A2 Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) =E2=80=A2 USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Gesch=C3=A4ftsf=C3=BChrer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Ale= xander Steeg