Re: Updating the felix and osgi stack

2015-02-24 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 06:54:46PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > > I have finished my work on osgi-annotation and updated osgi-core to > version 6.0.0 and felix-framework to 4.6.0. I suggest to upload > osgi-annotation to NEW and the rest to experimental as soon as the > package got accepted by

Re: ITP: osgi-annotation -- Java OSGi API - annotation module

2015-02-24 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 06:18:02PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > Hi, > > I have pushed osgi-annotation to > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/osgi-annotation.git > > and I am looking for someone who would like to sponsor this package now. > Hi Markus, I'll take care of it. Cheers,

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 06:51:24PM +0100, Martin Steghöfer wrote: > Hi Andreas! > > Andreas Tille wrote: > >Does anybody honestly think that the vanished author who does not > >seem to care for his very old code at all will mind about our > >perfectly theoretical discussion? > > Very, very likely

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Martin Steghöfer
Hi Andreas! Andreas Tille wrote: Does anybody honestly think that the vanished author who does not seem to care for his very old code at all will mind about our perfectly theoretical discussion? Very, very likely he won't. But if the fact that the copyright owner won't sue us is the relevant

Re: Updating the felix and osgi stack

2015-02-24 Thread Markus Koschany
On 22.02.2015 00:40, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 08:28:26PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: >> >> Therefore I intend to file an ITP bug for osgi-annotation-java and >> update osgi-core and osgi-compendium to 6.0.0. >> >> Any objections? > > None. > > If you need sponsoring for

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 06:14:15PM +0100, Martin Steghöfer wrote: > Hi Thorsten! > > Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >Can you, or anyone really, give some detail on what exactly is the > >problem here (which files)? > > I'm sorry for not having been more specific from the beginning. > Given that you had

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Martin Steghöfer
Hi Thorsten! Thorsten Glaser wrote: Can you, or anyone really, give some detail on what exactly is the problem here (which files)? I'm sorry for not having been more specific from the beginning. Given that you had brought up the interface aspect yourself, I thought we were on the same page.

Re: ITP: osgi-annotation -- Java OSGi API - annotation module

2015-02-24 Thread Markus Koschany
On 23.02.2015 18:04, Markus Koschany wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Markus Koschany > > * Package name: osgi-annotation > Version : 6.0.0 > Upstream Author : OSGi Alliance > * URL : http://www.osgi.org > * License : Apache-2.0 > Programm

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Martin Steghöfer wrote: > Sure, replacing the interfaces with our own ones (or the free ones from > freehep) and patching all reverse dependencies can work. But as you've > probably guessed from my choice of words ("crippling"), presenting an altered > interface to all current

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Martin Steghöfer
Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Martin Steghöfer wrote: the interface issue again. Because no matter how well we replace the implementation, if we can't use the interfaces or have to "cripple" them, we don't have a fix. We can just reimplement them, since we control all packages tha

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Martin Steghöfer
Hi Thorsten! Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Martin Steghöfer wrote: So is it the official Debian position There cannot be an official Debian position on this, either it’s so or not, based on law ;-) Yes, it's the law, but I doubt that the law mentions Java interfaces explicitly

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Martin Steghöfer wrote: > the interface issue again. Because no matter how well we replace the > implementation, if we can't use the interfaces or have to "cripple" them, we > don't have a fix. We can just reimplement them, since we control all packages that go into Debian an

Re: antlr3 on slow machines

2015-02-24 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, 2015-02-24 14:27 GMT+01:00 Thorsten Glaser : > Emmanuel Bourg dixit: > >>This issue only affects non arch all packages depending on antlr, I >>don't think there are many of them and fixing the issue with an extra >>command line parameter is trivial. > > Hmm. > > udd=> SELECT source, version, a

Re: antlr3 on slow machines

2015-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Emmanuel Bourg dixit: >This issue only affects non arch all packages depending on antlr, I >don't think there are many of them and fixing the issue with an extra >command line parameter is trivial. Hmm. udd=> SELECT source, version, architecture FROM sources WHERE release='sid' AND build_depend

Re: RFS: libconstantine-java update to 0.8.6

2015-02-24 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Hi Tim, Thanks for taking care and updating this package. Coincidentally, during last night, jnr-constants 0.8.6 was accepted in unstable. So, I think we should focus on that package and only work on libconstantine-java in order to remove it and replace it with jnr-constants now is finally in th

Re: antlr3 on slow machines (was Re: Log for attempted build of forked-daapd_22.0-1 on m68k (dist=unstable))

2015-02-24 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 24/02/2015 13:23, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > Bálint Réczey dixit: > >> Not that I am lazy but I think instead of patching every package using >> antlr antlr itself should be patched to use higher default timeouts on >> slow platforms. > > can we please get some sort of feedback on this? > Re

antlr3 on slow machines (was Re: Log for attempted build of forked-daapd_22.0-1 on m68k (dist=unstable))

2015-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dear Java maintainers, Bálint Réczey dixit: >Not that I am lazy but I think instead of patching every package using >antlr antlr itself should be patched to use higher default timeouts on >slow platforms. can we please get some sort of feedback on this? Revisiting because the next forked-daapd b

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Martin Steghöfer wrote: > So is it the official Debian position There cannot be an official Debian position on this, either it’s so or not, based on law ;-) > that interfaces are not protected by copyright law? I'm not an expert IANAL either, but interoperability is a big t