maven dependency error

2017-11-30 Thread olitank
Hello, I am trying to package this library: https://github.com/dotxyteam/ReflectionUI It is built with maven. Then i used the maven-debian-helper. But i am stuck because of a "com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream:jar:1.4.7" dependency error. Yet i found this dependency (good groupId and version)

Re: Impact of the new Java release policy on Debian

2017-11-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 30/11/2017 à 14:31, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > > Eek, that would break most of Debian’s stability promises. > > People would lynch you. > > I know :) That's why I mentioned "near perfect backward compatibility" > as a prerequisite. Well, it’s n

Re: The quilt / maven-helper dance

2017-11-30 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 26/11/2017 à 10:07, Christopher Hoskin a écrit : > debclean calls "debuild -- clean" which calls dh_auto_clean, which > invokes the clean function in maven.pm . If the > debian/maven-repo folder exists, maven is then invoked to run its own > clean target using the unmodified up

Re: Impact of the new Java release policy on Debian

2017-11-30 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 30/11/2017 à 14:31, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > Eek, that would break most of Debian’s stability promises. > People would lynch you. I know :) That's why I mentioned "near perfect backward compatibility" as a prerequisite. Emmanuel Bourg

Re: JDK 10 Early Access b33 and JDK 8u162 Early Access b03 are available on jdk.java.net

2017-11-30 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 29/11/2017 à 14:32, dalibor topic a écrit : > Does java-package work for JDK 10 EA builds? Not yet but it definitely will. > An alternative to javah has been available with the -h flag for javac since > JDK 8 Great, so we can start the transition now. It might be nice to add some examples

Re: JDK 10 Early Access b33 and JDK 8u162 Early Access b03 are available on jdk.java.net

2017-11-30 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 30/11/2017 à 10:27, dalibor topic a écrit : > Thanks, Emmanuel - in many of these cases (AspectJ, ICU, Spotbugs, > Gradle, Scala) the way forward seems to be to upgrade the packaged > software to the latest upstream version supporting JDK 9, often thanks > to the patches provided by Chris West

Re: Impact of the new Java release policy on Debian

2017-11-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > major (LTS or other) OpenJDK release during the lifetime of stable > > release, maybe even on a regular cadence as a 'rolling' default. > > A rolling default JRE might be interesting, that would reduce the number > of JDKs maintained (assuming unstab

Re: Impact of the new Java release policy on Debian

2017-11-30 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 30/11/2017 à 12:31, dalibor topic a écrit : > Hi, > > a few comments on the thread: Thanks a lot for the input! > * For JDK 9, I have posted > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2017-November/24.html > regarding Oracle's planned contributions. In short, Oracle plans t

Re: Impact of the new Java release policy on Debian

2017-11-30 Thread dalibor topic
Hi, a few comments on the thread: * For JDK 9, I have posted http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2017-November/24.html regarding Oracle's planned contributions. In short, Oracle plans to end contributing JDK 9 Updates to OpenJDK with the end of public updates of JDK 9

Bug#883168: ITP: javabeans-activation-framework -- JavaBeans Activation Framework

2017-11-30 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: javabeans-activation-framework Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Oracle * URL : https://github.com/javaee/activation * License : CDDL-1.1 or GPL-2 with Classpath exception Programming Lang

Re: JDK 10 Early Access b33 and JDK 8u162 Early Access b03 are available on jdk.java.net

2017-11-30 Thread dalibor topic
On 29.11.2017 14:22, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 29/11/2017 à 13:30, dalibor topic a écrit : I think what makes Debian GNU/Linux interesting for us regarding the OpenJDK Quality Outreach is that it's one of the first Linux distributions to do mass rebuilds of its (quite substantial) package archiv