[josm-dev] JCS as optional dependency

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

> I can try to have a look but I never packaged something on Debian before.
> Is there a "Debian packaging for dummies" somewhere? :)

The Debian New Maintainers' Guide is the official resource for people new
to Debian packaging:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/

For the Debian GIS team we also have the team policy documenting best
practices:

http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/policy/index.html#introduction

The Debian Java team, under whose umbrella the JCS package and
dependencies are most appropriate, also has some minimal documentation on
the wiki:

https://wiki.debian.org/Java/Packaging

Unfortunately the debian-maven-helper tool is not documented very well,
and this is the tool you'll most likely use to package Apache Commons
projects. There is only an example:

https://wiki.debian.org/Java/MavenDebianHelper

Kind Regards,

Bas