Re: RPM spec file?

[Archie Cobbs]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> There is an old one by Brian Jones.
> http://www.haphazard.org/~cbj/classpath/classpath.spec

Thanks.. I've got basically the same thing with updated
info and less hard-coded stuff.

I'll post it after testing it out a bit. I'm also planning to put
Classpath RPM(s) up in the JC SourceForge project download area with
the next JC release.

> > My motivation is that a JC RPM needs to depend on "classpath", but
> > there's no RPM for Classpath yet. I see "classpath-inetlib",
> > "classpath-mail", etc. RPMs.. but none for Classpath.
>
> I don't know that much about packaging. For Debian packages I believe
> they want to do their debian control files themselves and don't like to
> have them in the upstream sources. I don't know what the conventions are
> for rmp packages. But it seems a good idea in general. There are a
> couple of packages that can then depend directly on a classpath package.

(Sorry if this is straying off-topic...)

Who do I ask about building a Debian package for JC?

Thanks,
-Archie

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