Emmanuel Bourg

The description and the url in the pom are now used by default in the control file. The other mandatory fields left to initialize from the pom are: - `Package`...

Would that prevent using jdeb with Maven 2 ?

I think we have to fix the thread safety of FilteredFile first, the static fields may conflict if several instances of jdeb are run in parallel.

Lintian prints a warning for non relative links: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/symlink-should-be-relative.html That's not strictly required to make a working package, but I think we should do our best to produce lintian clean...

Rather than adding a new mapper I think we should implement something like `dh_fixperms`, such that in most cases we never have to care about the permissions on the files....

That's basically the "build from source" mantra from Debian. In my opinion the scope of jdeb should be limited to binary packages. If you want to build packages and submit...

The other annoying part if you want to play by the rules is that all the dependencies have to be available as Debian packages. You can't include the jars directly...

We have to build source packages for that. I'm increasingly interested in this area, so I'll probably give it a try.

If it can be configured globally or per component that's even better.

Hi, Debian maintainer here, the SWT package is fairly up to date nowadays, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has SWT 4.9, Debian 10 has SWT 4.10 and the next Ubuntu LTS should...