New packages

[Kumar Appaiah]

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! ;-)

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

HTH.

Kumar
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