Chapter 1. Background

An important warning: this text is a proposal. I put it here, publically, so it can be read, discussed, implemented, ignored, etc. It has no sort of endorsement from any authority in Debian or elsewhere.

Feel free to report me (Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>) comments and disagrements. I'll put them on this text and forward them to <debian-java@lists.debian.org>, if you don't object.

There are several "subpolicies" in Debian. They all want to make the Debian Policy more precise when it comes to a specific subject. See the Emacs subpolicy in package emacsen-common for instance. As far as I know, the only subpolicy for a programming language, is that of Perl.

This policy is intended to be in a package java-common, whose maintainer will be Java Debian <debian-java@lists.debian.org>, when the policy have been officially accepted.