On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >> The only requirement I have from the Debian packagers is that Maven from > >> Debian still behaves *exactly* like Maven from Apache from a users point > >> of view. > > > we cannot distribute a software for Debian that could install non free > > software in all ~'s. > > Of course we can - wget can do that... :-) A Debian user (building stuff for > their own use) would expect Maven to work the same as it does elsewhere.
Full ACK. Even apt-get can install non-free Software when configured to do so. > How about this mini-plan for packaging Maven: > > Step 1. Package Maven for "use case 1" only, i.e., targetted for regular > users, with functionality identical to upstream (as much as possible). > > Step 2. Implement any changes and extensions needed for building Debian > packages with it. > > I suspect that Step 1 will take most of the effort. That is exactly what I have started on. The binary maven package was just a (hoepfully useful) testcase. Cheers, Michael -- .''`. | Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : | Free Java Developer <http://www.classpath.org> `. `' | `- | 1024D/BAC5 4B28 D436 95E6 F2E0 BD11 5923 A008 2763 483B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
