On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 15:25, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
JPP is certainly not up to Fedora.us standards right now, but again the number of contributors is several orders smaller than Fedora's, and packaging java stuff is often *much* harder, since a large part of the Java developer community is totally unaware of FOSS release conventions.
One more data point in addition to the above: JPackage's distro-independence goal results in another layer of complexity and tradeoffs, making it impossible to adhere to the strictest distro-specific packaging "rules". But it works pretty well anyway.