The dll is required for some log4j functionality, specifically logging to Windows Event Log. In the past, the log4j developers have forgotten to build this dll when packaging binary releases. I thought that might be the case here. If it is part of Debian Policy[tm] to not package it, that's fine.
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 06:57:28AM +0100, Michael Koch wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:14:46PM -0600, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > > Package: liblog4j1.2-java > > Version: 1.2.12-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > The NTEventLogAppender.dll file is not included. I believe this is an > > upstream issue because it's happened before[1] in 1.2.4. > > > > 1. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9606 > > Why should need this *WINDOWS* dll file on Linux. Such crap normally get > removed from the distribution before putting it into Debian. What is > your usecase that makes it needed on Debian Linux? > > > Cheers, > Michael > -- > Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html > > Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/
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