On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 12:01 PM Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 27/09/2020 00:23, Markus Koschany wrote: > <snip> > > > Why don't we just create more or less official (even though not really > > perfect) Debian packages for netbeans, eclipse, solr, hadoop, etc. by > > using tools like jdeb [1] for ant and maven projects or > > gradle-ospackage-plugin for gradle [2]. > > I fully share Markus' analysis. Packaging these huge projects isn't > viable without more regular, dedicated, contributors.
+1 I had been trying to package #943552 and it took me almost one year to have it working (still all the features not working). I dont know yet if it can really be maintained properly with that huge number of dependencies (upstream packaging had 287 jars). -- Regards Sudip
