Re: Who still cares about SVN for packaging?

2013-03-22 Thread Hilko Bengen
* Sylvestre Ledru: > Asking several times the same question won't help you with that ... > You should focus on packaging itself. Way to go, telling people in a largely volunteer-based community what their priorities should be... -Hilko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Commons Compress update

2013-03-22 Thread tony mancill
On 03/22/2013 01:09 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Le 22/03/2013 08:41, Thomas Koch a écrit : > >> I usually migrate all packages from SVN to Git when I touch them. There are >> only a few (2-3?) Debian Java Devs who still prefer SVN. >> >> So if you like, we could quickly do the mig

RFS: libcommons-compress-java/1.5-1

2013-03-22 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi, Here is my first RFS for a simple upgrade of Apache Commons Compress. If it goes well there is more to follow soon :) Emmanuel Bourg --- I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libcommons-compress-java" * Package name: libcommons-compress-java Version : 1.5-1 Section

Re: RFS: libjide-oss-java 3.5.1+dfsg-1 (initial release) - [UPLOADED]

2013-03-22 Thread Markus Koschany
On Thu, 21. Mar 21:06 tony mancill wrote: > Hello Markus, > > Nice job with the packaging. You might consider adding maven > coordinates in a future revisions, but the package appears ready for the > archive, so I have uploaded it. Feel free to contact me either directly > or via the list for s

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

2013-03-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:53:05 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > Second thing is with source tarballs or Git repos. For building a Debian > package we need a source tarball that does not contain any non-free or binary > artifacts. What's equally annyoing are tarballs/zipfiles that don't contain the co

Maven debian helper improvements

2013-03-22 Thread Boris Ribalkin
Hi Thomas, I did some improvements to mdh related to non interactive mode: 1. Package version defaults to maven version. 2. ignore-missing flag Introduced to ignore not needed libraries to be able to continue and see if build fails. 3. mh_make skip test / doc flag fixes. 4. Default licence versio

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

2013-03-22 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 22/03/2013 09:22, Thomas Koch a écrit : > However I'm not sure whether a source.jar produced by maven can be used to > build a Debian package. I assume that generated java code from tools like > protobuf or jflex is included in the source.jar? We don't want generated > source code but the "r

Re: Cannot build Commons Configuration

2013-03-22 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 22/03/2013 09:34, Thomas Koch a écrit : > the groupId declared in the dependency (org.apache.commons) and the groupId > provided (commons-jexl) are different. Please look, which would be the most > "official" groupId and we can patch the commons-jexl to publish its artifacts > under the corr

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

2013-03-22 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 22/03/2013 08:53, Thomas Koch a écrit : > thank you for offering your help. As I wrote, it would be very helpful, if > somebody (you) could start to lobby for sane artifact signing on Apache > Conferences and on mailing lists. > > It doesn't make sense to sign release artifacts with GPG keys

Re: Cannot build Commons Configuration

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Koch
Emmanuel Bourg: > Le 19/03/2013 15:44, Niels Thykier a écrit : > > So, I never took time to understand what all of that maven-stuff means, > > but if > > > > """org.apache.commons:commons-jexl:jar:debian""" > > > > is "::", then that is probably the issue > > because the commons-jexl pom appears

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

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Koch
Manfred Moser: > Some clarifications.. dito, thx for your reply. > > - Release source tarballs, not only binaries to maven central. > > This has been a requirement for open source components in Central for > years. You can find them with the -sources classifier in a jar file. E.g. > looking at >

Re: Commons Compress update

2013-03-22 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi Thomas, Le 22/03/2013 08:41, Thomas Koch a écrit : > I usually migrate all packages from SVN to Git when I touch them. There are > only a few (2-3?) Debian Java Devs who still prefer SVN. > > So if you like, we could quickly do the migration and then you can learn > packaging with current t

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

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Koch
Emmanuel Bourg: > Hi Thomas, > > I'm a committer on the Apache Commons project, if you have an itch to > scratch with one of the libraries (commons-lang, commons-collections, > etc) I should be able to help quickly. > > Do you have specific examples of Apache projects affected by the issues > you

Re: Who still cares about SVN for packaging?

2013-03-22 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 22/03/2013 08:45, Thomas Koch wrote: > Hi, > > I remember that some people in the Debian-Java team wrote that they'd prefer > their packages to remain in SVN. But I can't find the mail thread anymore. > > And people might have changed their minds in the last months. > > Could you be so kind,

Who still cares about SVN for packaging?

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, I remember that some people in the Debian-Java team wrote that they'd prefer their packages to remain in SVN. But I can't find the mail thread anymore. And people might have changed their minds in the last months. Could you be so kind, to give a short response to this mail in case that you

Re: Commons Compress update

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Koch
Emmanuel Bourg: > Hi, > > I updated Commons Compress in SVN for the recent 1.5 release. What is Hi Emmanuel, I usually migrate all packages from SVN to Git when I touch them. There are only a few (2-3?) Debian Java Devs who still prefer SVN. So if you like, we could quickly do the migration an