Hi Pierre,
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:40:31PM +0200, Pierre Gruet wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been trying to package libsis-jhdf5-java, after Andreas imported the
> last upstream version.
> This package builds a java package with a .jar file and a jni package with
> native code used by the .jar.
>
> I have been able to:
> - refresh patches;
> - get rid of the private header H5private.h of source package hdf5, which is
> not shipped by any package. Only a few simple preprocessor directives of
> that file were used;
> - update the list of build-depends;
> - have the package build, including the override of dh_auto_test that caused
> issues previously.
Thanks a lot. That's all very helpful!
> Yet:
> - it seems that only a few upstream-provided tests are run in dh_auto_test,
> so having the build complete is maybe not so meaningful :-( ;
> - I have begun designing tests for the autopkgtest testsuite, using
> upstream-provided tests, and while around 30 of them pass, there remains a
> lot of failing tests. It seems that the linking of the jni with the jar is
> not correctly done at build-time.
>
> At that point I would need help, as this package is complicated: the build
> processes of the jar and the jni are somehow entangled and I do not have
> enough knowledge of Java packaging to be able to solve the issues I'm facing.
>
> Maybe there does not remain so much to be done; if someone has Java
> knowledge and could look to the current packaging I have put into Salsa [1],
> this would be really great.
I've put debian-java@l.d.o in CC since the competence in debian-med for
Java is not that widely spread.
> Thank you and have a good week,
Thanks again for your great help
Andreas.
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libsis-jhdf5-java
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