RFS: antlr3/3.2-8 (watch file and copyright update for unstable)

2013-04-25 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi all, I updated the antlr3 package to fix the broken watch file. I unveiled a bug in the process (#706172) but I couldn't find the right solution to fix it. Here is the changelog: * Updated Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes) * Updated the watch file * Converted debian/copyright to t

Re: Auto-generating versioned dependencies for Java packages (via maven/java helpers)

2013-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Mathieu Malaterre writes: > I am not a java expert clearly but I fear that maintaining those symbols > will be difficult, maybe just as difficult as C++ symbols are (think: > java generics). It would be somewhat less difficult than C++ symbols because Java doesn't have interfaces that change bas

Re: RFS: antlr/2.7.7+dfsg-5 (watch file and copyright update for unstable)

2013-04-25 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 25/04/2013 17:20, Niels Thykier a écrit : > Uploaded, thanks for your contribution. :) Please remember to add a tag > in the VCS for this package. Tagged, thank you! Emmanuel Bourg signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Auto-generating versioned dependencies for Java packages (via maven/java helpers)

2013-04-25 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 25/04/2013 17:56, Niels Thykier a écrit : > I am therefore considering to make jh_depends (javatools) to generating > "$pkg (>= ${installed-upstream-version})" dependencies by default. > Given all the information available in the pom files, the maven helper > tools may be able to give better (i

Re: Auto-generating versioned dependencies for Java packages (via maven/java helpers)

2013-04-25 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
If the issue is to prevent broken reverse dependencies when a package is updated a solution could be to use a continuous integration system. The reverse dependencies would be rebuilt automatically when the package is updated, and the errors reported on the mailing list. If possible I would to that

Re: Auto-generating versioned dependencies for Java packages (via maven/java helpers)

2013-04-25 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > On a related note, would it make sense to deploy something like "shlibs" > files for Java? I have experimented with adding "symbols" files in the > past and they tend to be rather large if every symbol must be covered. > Though if we reduce

Auto-generating versioned dependencies for Java packages (via maven/java helpers)

2013-04-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, As the topic suggests I want to talk about improving the situation on auto-generating versioned dependencies via our helper tools (e.g. javahelper and maven-*-helper). At the moment, javahelper doesn't add versioned dependencies, which is actually really bad. I am not sure what the situation

Re: RFS: antlr/2.7.7+dfsg-5 (watch file and copyright update for unstable)

2013-04-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-25 12:13, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated the venerable antlr package to fix the watch file as well as > minor Lintian warnings on the copyright file. I guess it's safe enough > to target unstable. > > Here is the changelog: > > * Updated the watch file (contributed by

Re: libcommons-jexl2-java

2013-04-25 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 25/04/2013 12:53, Olivier Sallou a écrit : > Hi Emmanuel, > did you progress on jexl2 ? I did not see it on mentors.debian.net Hi Olivier, I uploaded the package on mentors, let me know how it works for you. Do you want to sponsor it? http://mentors.debian.net/package/libcommons-jexl2-java

Re: libcommons-jexl2-java

2013-04-25 Thread Olivier Sallou
Hi Emmanuel, did you progress on jexl2 ? I did not see it on mentors.debian.net Thanks Olivier On 04/10/2013 04:57 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 10/04/2013 16:41, Olivier Sallou a écrit : > >> do you know if there is someone working on libcommons-jexl2-java ? >> >> I saw a recent mail talking ab

RFS: antlr/2.7.7+dfsg-5 (watch file and copyright update for unstable)

2013-04-25 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi all, I updated the venerable antlr package to fix the watch file as well as minor Lintian warnings on the copyright file. I guess it's safe enough to target unstable. Here is the changelog: * Updated the watch file (contributed by Bart Martens) * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no chan

Re: Contributing - Where to start

2013-04-25 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 24/04/2013 16:38, Felipe FV a écrit : > I really would appreciate some help on how things work at Java > development here. Where could I start? Hi Felipe, Thank you for offering your help. I was in your position some time ago and I struggled a bit to get started. There is a lot of documentati