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> Warning: These are just advices, they are not part of the policy.
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> Be sure to manage all dependencies by hand in
<TT
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>debian/control</TT
>. Debian development tools cannot
find them automatically like they do with C programs and libraries
(or like dh_perl does it for Perl, a volunteer to write dh_java
would be welcome).
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> You can suppress many calls in <TT
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>debian/rules</TT
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which are meaningless for Java, like dh_strip and dh_shlibdeps.
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> Source package handling is painful, since most Java
upstream programs come with <TT
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>.class</TT
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suggest to make a new <TT
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>.orig</TT
> tarball after
cleaning them, otherwise, dpkg-source will complain.
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> Java properties files are probably better under
<TT
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> and flagged as configuration files (this
will be integrated in the policy, one day).
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> Java packages <SPAN
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> be built with <SPAN
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