Re: Frustration with trying to build Debian packages from Maven-based sources

2013-03-17 Thread tony mancill
On 03/17/2013 06:35 PM, Scott Howard wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >> Le 17/03/2013 16:47, Hilko Bengen a écrit : >> >>> I don't mean to offend anyone here nor belittle hard work that has gone >>> into the mentioned tools, but can't we do better than this? >> >> W

Re: Frustration with trying to build Debian packages from Maven-based sources

2013-03-17 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 17/03/2013 16:47, Hilko Bengen a écrit : > >> I don't mean to offend anyone here nor belittle hard work that has gone >> into the mentioned tools, but can't we do better than this? > > What about leveraging the Maven infrastructure and do

Re: Frustration with trying to build Debian packages from Maven-based sources

2013-03-17 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 17/03/2013 16:47, Hilko Bengen a écrit : > I don't mean to offend anyone here nor belittle hard work that has gone > into the mentioned tools, but can't we do better than this? What about leveraging the Maven infrastructure and downloading the dependencies directly from the central Maven repos

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-03-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
>> I won't upload this myself. IcedTea 7-2.3 uses two hotspot versions, one for >> the >> zero ports, one for the hotspot runtimes. From my point of view it would be >> good >> to update to a 7-2.[45] with a unified hotspot version capable to build both >> zero and hotspot, and keep the current 7

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-03-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 01.03.2013 04:35, schrieb Moritz Mühlenhoff: >> Backporting security fixes with Java has turned out to be more of less >> unfeasible. I tried this once with DSA 2507 and I think that amounted to at >> least >> two man days of work for tha

Re: RFS: eclipse-cdt 8.1.2-1 (new upstream for experimental) - [UPLOADED]

2013-03-17 Thread tony mancill
On 03/16/2013 09:44 AM, Jakub Adam wrote: > Hi Niels, > > On 16.3.2013 10:53, Niels Thykier wrote: >> is "cca" a typo of "ca." (i.e. "circa") or something else? > > Yes, it was meant to mean "circa". The abbreviation "cca." is also > possible in English[1], > but looks like it's not so common as

Frustration with trying to build Debian packages from Maven-based sources

2013-03-17 Thread Hilko Bengen
Hi, what follows is a somewhat rant-y account of the things that can go wrong when someone who is experienced in Debian packaging (but rather new to this Java thing) tries to prepare pacakges that are built using Maven: Initially, all I wanted to do was to build a proper Debian package for Elast