Hello, as part of the Debian Mono Team, I'm trying to get ikvm [1] into an usable state. I've contacted the upstream author, since the build process is *nasty*, at least: it *requires* GNU Classpath's and OpenJDK's sources (upstream specified that a *full* *build* of OpenJDK is required, because of some generated files), and including them inside debian/ is not a great idea to me because:
1) *enormous* diff.gz; 2) security headaches -- code duplication is never nice; 3) hard maintainability. Upstream noted that he does provide pre-generated .zips with all the needed files to build IKVM. I suppose that this makes ikvm non-free (pre-built binaries), but the binaries are effectively coming from software in main (GNU Classpath and OpenJDK). How should I behave here? 1) Should I include the sources in debian/ and do all the needed steps to get a full compile? (notice that if we follow this, each IKVM build will include an OpenJDK build...) 2) Or should I make two separate (source) packages, "ikvm" and "ikvm-build-deps", with the former Build-Depends on the latter? Also, would this be acceptable? (probably ikvm-build-deps would go into non-free, and ikvm into contrib?) Any suggestion is very welcome. Regards, David Paleino [1] that is, the JVM ported on Mono -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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