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Re: api docs, java source

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Onkar Shinde wrote:
>> Would it be useful to have PACKAGE-dev packages for java containing the
>> source code, so that I can refer to it when developing on top of a
>> library?
> 
> Ideally you shouldn't refer to source code of libraries for writing
> your app. You should refer javadoc of the library.

In practice, source code is often used in development. It is common to pull 
source jars from a Maven repository, for example. This is very useful for 
debugging. I don't think we have good support for this use case in Debian, 
so it is something we could think about.

Cheers,

Marcus
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