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authorEmmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>2014-07-15 13:18:37 +0000
committerEmmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>2014-07-15 13:18:37 +0000
commit1264b950b3a608348e2aeb7c6ec0d4d2daf5d66e (patch)
treea6f02e3d9207b6775be903eea336c4c363c2faed
parentc6db1c6b94746ef51bcf8c2a43864ff56cc5c909 (diff)
downloadjava-common-1264b950b3a608348e2aeb7c6ec0d4d2daf5d66e.tar.gz
Programs must depend on the needed runtime environment, but not the libraries
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog9
-rw-r--r--policy.xml9
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 65459dd..686fc7d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+java-common (0.53) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Team upload.
+ * Policy changes:
+ - Programs must depend on the needed runtime environment, but not
+ the libraries (Closes: #730133)
+
+ -- Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:15:36 +0200
+
java-common (0.52) unstable; urgency=medium
* Team upload.
diff --git a/policy.xml b/policy.xml
index 4ef2260..d7454bb 100644
--- a/policy.xml
+++ b/policy.xml
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
<title>Building Java packages</title>
<para>
- Since it is common for Java source tarball to ship jar files of thirdparty
+ Since it is common for Java source tarball to ship jar files of third party
libraries, creating a repack script to remove them from the upstream tarball
is mandatory.
</para>
@@ -247,6 +247,11 @@
</para>
<para>
+ Programs &must; depend on the needed runtime environment (&d-jre; and/or
+ &d-jre-h; if need a GUI or not).
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
There is no naming rules for programs, they are ordinary programs,
from the user point of view.
</para>
@@ -261,7 +266,7 @@
</para>
<para>
- Libraries &must; depend on the needed runtime environment (&d-jre; and/or &d-jre-h; if need a GUI or not).
+ Libraries &must; not depend on a Java runtime.
</para>
<para>