Re: Setting goals for Wheezy

2011-02-09 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-02-09 00:17, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: > Hi, > > [...] > My other goals are : > - improve relationship with Debian Science (as they use more and more Java > software) > [...] > - work on Maven 3.x and integration with dh 7/8 That sounds g

Re: Setting goals for Wheezy

2011-02-09 Thread tony mancill
On 02/09/2011 05:26 AM, Stefane Fermigier wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2011, at 11:55 AM, James Page wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Appreciate that I have been *absolutely* silent on this mailing list >> since I joined but I would like to get more involved in Java packaging >> for Debian and have a few opinions on

Re: GSoC project to make maven more Debian friendly?

2011-02-09 Thread Torsten Werner
Hi Thomas, On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: > I plan to participate in the summer of code, but definitely as a student. are you interested in implementing the Maven stuff as a student? Cheers, Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: GSoC project to make maven more Debian friendly?

2011-02-09 Thread Thomas Koch
Sylvestre Ledru: > Le mercredi 09 février 2011 à 18:02 +0100, Thomas Koch a écrit : > I like the idea of addressing this issue through a GSOC. > Are you willing to be a mentor for this project ? Hi Sylvestre, I plan to participate in the summer of code, but definitely as a student. And there are

Re: GSoC project to make maven more Debian friendly?

2011-02-09 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le mercredi 09 février 2011 à 18:02 +0100, Thomas Koch a écrit : > Hi, > [...] > > Do you think this would make sense? Is so, we could make this a project idea > for the Google Summer of Code. I like the idea of addressing this issue through a GSOC. Are you willing to be a mentor for this projec

GSoC project to make maven more Debian friendly?

2011-02-09 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, as we've just seen in another thread[1], it's a very hard problem to get java stuff into Debian. My naive idea how things could, if ever, get better, is: - It should become standard, that every jar available on maven[2] should be accompanied by a source code package that allows automatic re

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Torsten Werner
Am 09.02.2011 16:43, schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > If the upstream of a library is regularly breaking the ABI (which is not > uncommon), I will add a check in the build system to make sure that I > will find the exact version of the upstream library I am using (it does > help also other distributions)

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Bonjour Stéphane, Le mercredi 09 février 2011 à 16:36 +0100, Stefane Fermigier a écrit : > On Feb 9, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: > >> Am 09.02.2011 15:24, schrieb Vincent Fourmond: > >>> The FTPmaster will *never* accept

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Stefane Fermigier
On Feb 9, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: >> Am 09.02.2011 15:24, schrieb Vincent Fourmond: >>> The FTPmaster will *never* accept sourceless JARs. >> >> we don't accept them into Debian's main component. However they are >> acc

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Vincent Fourmond
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: > Am 09.02.2011 15:51, schrieb Stefane Fermigier: >> Can we start this discussion over with this option in mind ? > > There is another option that we should discuss: > > - distribute all those binary dependencies in a separate package, e.g. > n

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Vincent Fourmond
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: > Am 09.02.2011 15:24, schrieb Vincent Fourmond: >>   The FTPmaster will *never* accept sourceless JARs. > > we don't accept them into Debian's main component. However they are > acceptable for the non-free component as long as it is allowed to

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Torsten Werner
Am 09.02.2011 15:51, schrieb Stefane Fermigier: > Can we start this discussion over with this option in mind ? There is another option that we should discuss: - distribute all those binary dependencies in a separate package, e.g. nuxeo-nonfree-libs via alioth.d.o or some other inofficial server

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Stefane Fermigier
Thanks, Torsten, this is great news ! Can we start this discussion over with this option in mind ? S. On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: > Hi, > > Am 09.02.2011 15:24, schrieb Vincent Fourmond: >> The FTPmaster will *never* accept sourceless JARs. > > we don't accept them in

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Torsten Werner
Hi, Am 09.02.2011 15:24, schrieb Vincent Fourmond: > The FTPmaster will *never* accept sourceless JARs. we don't accept them into Debian's main component. However they are acceptable for the non-free component as long as it is allowed to redistribute them in binary form. Cheers, Torsten --

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Stefane Fermigier
On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Stefane Fermigier wrote: >>> What is not true? The fact that packaging things in Debian is difficult >>> or the fact that it's so because it requires some added value? >> >> No, the fact that it

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
On 09/02/2011 14:50, Scott Howard wrote: >> BTW, here's what geogebra's download page >> (http://www.geogebra.org/cms/en/download) says: "You are free to >> copy, distribute and transmit GeoGebra for non-commercial >> purposes". >> >> Isn't this a flagrant violation of the DFSG (Item 6, "No >> Dis

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Stefane Fermigier wrote: >> What is not true? The fact that packaging things in Debian is difficult >> or the fact that it's so because it requires some added value? > > No, the fact that it *only* requires "some" added value. > > You are requiring *much

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Scott Howard
This is an interesting problem, there are great open source Java projects out there that, but no fault of their own, are using libraries from a repo that Debian can't access (no copyright notice and no license makes it a non-starter). Add the library versioning/API breakage potential on top of that

Re: Setting goals for Wheezy

2011-02-09 Thread Stefane Fermigier
On Feb 9, 2011, at 11:55 AM, James Page wrote: > Hi > > Appreciate that I have been *absolutely* silent on this mailing list > since I joined but I would like to get more involved in Java packaging > for Debian and have a few opinions on some of this thread. > > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 17:07 +010

Re: Setting goals for Wheezy

2011-02-09 Thread Torsten Werner
Hi, Am 09.02.2011 00:17, schrieb Damien Raude-Morvan: > I've some overlap with your own goals Torsten :) that's good. You can take my tasks. :) > kibi, tuco and I tried and, AFAIK, we all failed. > Have you started working on this ? from upstream "bsd-port" mercurial forest ? I've started with

Re: Setting goals for Wheezy

2011-02-09 Thread James Page
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 00:17 +0100, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: > - package some CI (Continuous Integration) tools like Nexus, Hudson, > Sonar and > some essentials plugins Hi Damien I've been working on packaging Hudson/Jenkins for Ubuntu since UDS-N in October (see [0] for the associated bluepr

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Stefane Fermigier
On Feb 9, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Hi. > > On 09/02/2011 10:06, Stefane Fermigier wrote: >>> I'd say that this one of the main added value of a distribution: >>> many different pieces of software harmonized together, under a >>> consistent policy so that people that want t

Re: Setting goals for Wheezy

2011-02-09 Thread Vincent Fourmond
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:55 AM, James Page wrote: > Appreciate that I have been *absolutely* silent on this mailing list > since I joined but I would like to get more involved in Java packaging > for Debian and have a few opinions on some of this thread. > > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 17:07 +0100, Tor

Re: Bug#612431: [libisorelax-java] please add .pom file to the package

2011-02-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giovanni Mascellani, le Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:42:20 +0100, a écrit : > On 09/02/2011 02:11, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Giovanni Mascellani, le Tue 08 Feb 2011 14:48:31 +0100, a écrit : > >> libisorelax-java doesn't ship any .pom file. Please apply the attached > >> patch to have one and ease compilati

Re: Setting goals for Wheezy

2011-02-09 Thread James Page
Hi Appreciate that I have been *absolutely* silent on this mailing list since I joined but I would like to get more involved in Java packaging for Debian and have a few opinions on some of this thread. On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 17:07 +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: > - Ship more pom files. +1 on this f

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Hi. On 09/02/2011 10:06, Stefane Fermigier wrote: >> I'd say that this one of the main added value of a distribution: >> many different pieces of software harmonized together, under a >> consistent policy so that people that want to change something in >> the source code and recompile just have to

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Stefane Fermigier
On Feb 9, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > On 09/02/2011 06:12, tony mancill wrote: >>> etc. So it seems either that nobody cares about getting these fine >>> (and popular) applications into Debian, or it's just too hard to do >>> given the current set of policies. >> >> I think th