Re: Looking at an archive rebuild with opendjk-9-jdk

On 29.06.2017 15:16, Chris West wrote: > I rebuilt ~300 packages[1] which build-depend on default-jdk in a > hacked-up[2] "chroot" which uses openjdk-9-jdk, in place of openjdk-8-jdk. > (i.e. custom java-common build + some Provides: hacks.) thanks for doing that! Usually java9 support comes in n

Looking at an archive rebuild with opendjk-9-jdk

I rebuilt ~300 packages[1] which build-depend on default-jdk in a hacked-up[2] "chroot" which uses openjdk-9-jdk, in place of openjdk-8-jdk. (i.e. custom java-common build + some Provides: hacks.) Most things fail: 87% failures. ~41% are hitting a bug in Maven, e.g. argparse4j: dh_auto_build

Re: Problems to package a Java-based application and uploading the resulting deb package to mentors

Hi, Am 29.06.2017 um 11:40 schrieb Eloy García (PC Actual): > Hi Markus, > > No discourage at all :) > > I see your point here but I think you are only partly right. IMHO I see > other small applications in the repository too. Yes, there are other small applications in Debian but from my own ex

Re: Problems to package a Java-based application and uploading the resulting deb package to mentors

Hi Markus, No discourage at all :) I see your point here but I think you are only partly right. IMHO I see other small applications in the repository too. In addition, WallpaperDownloader is already in AUR and available as a snap package in the Ubuntu Store, being daily used. Some of those users

Re: Problems to package a Java-based application and uploading the resulting deb package to mentors

Hi Emmanuel! Thank you very much for the tips. I'll try all your suggestions and come back here to post the results :) Best regards. Eloy 2017-06-29 9:23 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Bourg : > Hi Eloy, > > Le 28/06/2017 à 21:34, Eloy García (PC Actual) a écrit : > > > Those are the steps I have followed

Re: PDFBox 2.0.6

Le 29/06/2017 à 10:07, Markus Koschany a écrit : > Unfortunately src:libpdfbox-java also includes the sources for fontbox. > The packages can't be updated separately. I could update > src:libpdfbox-java as a whole or I need to create a new source package, > say src:libfontbox2-java. I think I do a

Re: Problems to package a Java-based application and uploading the resulting deb package to mentors

Hi, I don't want to discourage you from getting more involved with Debian and Java packaging in general but in my opinion you shouldn't start with packaging your own application. wallpaperdownloader sounds like a nice little application but it is probably just that. Debian is not a general-purpose

Re: PDFBox 2.0.6

Am 29.06.2017 um 09:02 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: > Le 29/06/2017 à 00:13, Markus Koschany a écrit : > >> Thoughts? > > Let's just update fontbox, that's the right time to do it and there > aren't many reverse dependencies. If we fail to port them to the new > version we can still upload the latest

Re: Problems to package a Java-based application and uploading the resulting deb package to mentors

Hi Eloy, Le 28/06/2017 à 21:34, Eloy García (PC Actual) a écrit : > Those are the steps I have followed so far: > > 01.- I installed Debian and switched to Sid > 02.- I cloned the master branch from the upstream repo in Bitbucket: git > clone https://bitbucket.org/eloy_garcia_pca/wallpaperdownlo

Re: PDFBox 2.0.6

Le 29/06/2017 à 00:13, Markus Koschany a écrit : > Thoughts? Let's just update fontbox, that's the right time to do it and there aren't many reverse dependencies. If we fail to port them to the new version we can still upload the latest 1.x version as a separate package later. Emmanuel Bourg