Re: signed applets?

2013-11-09 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >Le 09/11/2013 18:59, Felix Natter a écrit : > >> Freeplane also has applet support (for viewing mindmaps), which is >now >> signed upstream (using certum.eu) >> >> => I would also be interested into signing a jar for use with Debian >> (since I don't have the upstream

Re: java7-jdk vs java7-sdk

2013-10-11 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Joachim, Not in front of my PC but I guess that some package requires java7-sdk but that it's provided by nothing. Eric Joachim Zobel wrote: >Hi. > >Why do both exist? openjdk7 only provides java7-jdk, is this correct? > >Sicerely, >Joachim > >jo@backspace:~/projects/debian/netbeans$ aptitude

Re: Links in /usr/share/java

2013-06-11 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, olivier.sal...@codeless.fr said: > On 06/09/2013 01:14 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >> Most packages install these files in /usr/share/java >> >> foo-1.2.jar >> foo.jar -> foo-1.2.jar >> >> But some packages have the reverse relation: >> >> foo.jar >> foo-1.2.jar -> foo.jar > with this so

Re: review for RFS simplyhtml

2013-05-05 Thread Eric Lavarde
ourself to Uploaders agreed with the team ? (It's just an honest question, because I'm not part of the team.) If Eric Lavarde is no longer working on this package then please remove him from Uploaders. Agreed with the team and me but, indeed, I can/should be removed. There are more copyr

Re: Pack200 compression of packaged jars

2013-05-03 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Balancing jar size vs. simplicity of the solution, I'd definitely vote for simplicity: priceless, for everything else there is cheap disk space and bandwidth! Cheers, Eric -- Eric de France, d'Allemagne et de Navarre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-08 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Roman V.Leon. said: > Hello gentlemen. > Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are too old in Debian? > There were a few security issues recently but current version in testing > is still 7u3, while the oracle version is already 7u17. I can't see > other ways of installing java in

Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

2013-01-19 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, On 19/01/13 15:56, Felix Natter wrote: Eric Lavarde writes: Hi, hi Eric! finally I am making progress with the freeplane package :-) Good to hear! On 01/12/12 14:09, Eric Lavarde wrote: Back on your issue with get-orig-source, it works like a charm here: I think I know what

Re: Bug#698164: mandate unique package names in Debian Java policy

2013-01-16 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Daniel Pocock said: >> B. I doubt that such a badly named package would be of enough interest / >> quality for Debian packaging (but I might be wrong, I don't know any >> example) > > There are examples like this. It has been argued by some developers > that to compile using some toolchains (

Re: Bug#698164: mandate unique package names in Debian Java policy

2013-01-14 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, On 14/01/13 19:48, Daniel Pocock wrote: A few projects exist without following this convention, and sooner or later somebody may try to package one of them. According to the Java Language Specification, using a domain name is a "suggested convention" and not a mandatory obligation. None

Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

2012-12-17 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Felix Natter said: > shall I continue to put you in CC:? Please don't put me into CC: as I am > subscribed to debian-java :-) You indeed don't need to CC me. > > => thanks, now I have this in the parent directory of my checkout: > simplyhtml/ > simplyhtml_0.16.05-1.debian.tar.gz > simplyhtml_

Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

2012-12-02 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 02/12/12 10:56, Thomas Koch wrote: Eric Lavarde: => there are three options: Have you considered to patch the Debian version of freeplane to your needs? man dpkg-source, search: "3.0 (quilt)" http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/07/04/how-to-prepare-patches-for-debian- p

Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

2012-12-01 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 01/12/12 18:01, Felix Natter wrote: The problem is in the search dialog ("FindReplaceDialog"): There is a new "Approximate" check box which needs two things to work: (1) some translations: jcbMatchApprox.setText(Util.getResourceString(SHTMLPanel.getResources(), "matchApproxima

Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

2012-12-01 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 01/12/12 14:09, Eric Lavarde wrote: Back on your issue with get-orig-source, it works like a charm here: I think I know what happened: you had already modified the changelog to 0.16.05 in which case uscan doesn't download anything because it considers that you are already at th

Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

2012-12-01 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 25/11/12 09:47, Felix Natter wrote: Unfortunately, simplyhtml 0.16.05 requires Java5, while freemind only requires Java4. This is because I implemented an approximate string matching algorithm for freeplane (using enums, thus requiring Java5) and included the source code for it in simplyh

Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

2012-11-24 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 24/11/12 11:42, Felix Natter wrote: hi, I am in the process of building the freeplane 1.2.20 package (in collaboration with Cédric Pineau) and since freeplane needs a different version of simplyhtml than freemind does, I am building a simplyhtml-freeplane package (based on the existing s

Re: Quitting Debian Java packaging - HOWTO best

2011-10-25 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Done deal! :-) Thanks, Eric Andrew Ross said: > On 22/10/11 11:19, Eric Lavarde wrote: >> >> * libjcalendar-java - used to be a dependency of FreeMind, not anymore, >> dependency of no package, and popcon 52 - candidate for removal! >> > > Eric, > > Please

Re: Quitting Debian Java packaging - HOWTO best

2011-10-22 Thread Eric Lavarde
t think there is really a shortcut. Eric Cédric 2011/10/22 Eric Lavarde mailto:d...@zorglub.s.bawue.de>> Hello, I didn't find any time for quite a long time to maintain my packages, and before their quality suffers under my lack of attention, I'd pre

Quitting Debian Java packaging - HOWTO best

2011-10-22 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, I didn't find any time for quite a long time to maintain my packages, and before their quality suffers under my lack of attention, I'd prefer to properly manage my "retirement", and would like to hear your advices, and possibly take of ownership. Based on [1], list of packages I'm mai

Re: Hi and freemind adopter request questions

2011-09-22 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello/bonsoir Cédric, actually Christine already contacted me in this regard, but with holiday and such, we didn't do much progress. Perhaps time to do a check where we stand... Christine? Else, the dependencies of FreeMind packaged by myself are also "for sell" (I just don't even find the t

Re: Java's SVN not reachable on Alioth [Fwd: Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-07-02 Thread Eric Lavarde
On 03/07/11 00:49, gregor herrmann wrote: The alioth admins have removed the ancient pkg-perl CVS repo on my request, I guess that's also the way to go for the java team. Cheers, gregor, who suggests to ask friendly on the #alioth channel Thanks for the advice, but I guess that means we need fir

Java's SVN not reachable on Alioth [Fwd: Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-07-02 Thread Eric Lavarde
ssage Subject: Re: Alioth status update, take 3 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:01:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Eric Lavarde - Debian To: Roland Mas Hello Roland, the pkg-java project had an outdated CVS repository and an active SVN one, and the address http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-java leads to the CVS and I cou

RFS: freeplane (updated package)

2011-06-08 Thread Eric Lavarde
/freeplane/freeplane_1.1.3-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Eric Lavarde PS: Lintian currently complains about the class-path manifest, but we agreed on the Debian Java list that this is a special case (due to OSGi specifics) that Lintian might be able t

Re: Lintian Override for OSGi classpath in Freeplane?

2011-06-05 Thread Eric Lavarde
On 05/06/11 14:47, Niels Thykier wrote: LINTIAN_ROOT="" frontend/lintian $ LINTIAN_ROOT="" frontend/lintian -vi /home/ericl/ALIOTH/build-area/freeplane_1.1.3-1_i386.changes N: Setting up lab in /tmp/xpbW7820tM ... N: N: Processing changes file freeplane_1.1.3-1_i386 (version 1.1.3-1) ..

Re: Lintian Override for OSGi classpath in Freeplane?

2011-06-05 Thread Eric Lavarde
On 05/06/11 13:07, Eric Lavarde wrote: Actually could you test it with Lintian from the current git master? Note that the new Lintian will only output the "wrong" parts of a class-path entry, so the output will differ here. If it's simple and you tell me how :-) Eric Answering

Re: Lintian Override for OSGi classpath in Freeplane?

2011-06-05 Thread Eric Lavarde
On 04/06/11 14:54, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2011-06-04 14:43, Eric Lavarde wrote: But once I've patched away the class-path entry, it complains about a missing class-path, and no jar file in Freeplane has actually a class-path!? Not the entire classpath, only the "../" entry

Re: Lintian Override for OSGi classpath in Freeplane?

2011-06-04 Thread Eric Lavarde
On 04/06/11 14:07, Niels Thykier wrote: A strange thing is that Lintian does only complain about freeplaneeditor.jar and not about the other jar files!? It complains about the "../" part in freeplaneeditor.jar, which would be a relative path to a directory, which seems to be a genuine issue. B

Re: Lintian Override for OSGi classpath in Freeplane?

2011-06-04 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, I'm not a big OSGi specialist, but let me give back what I understand: On 04/06/11 12:16, Niels Thykier wrote: 2. my actual problem is that the classpath is actually not needed by > Freeplane because it uses Knopflerfish / OSGi framework which resolves > itself dependencies based on >

Lintian Override for OSGi classpath in Freeplane?

2011-06-04 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, while repackaging Freeplane, I noticed that there a few new Lintian checks in regard to Java... I had first the warning: W: freeplane: classpath-contains-relative-path usr/share/freeplane/core/org.freeplane.core/lib/freeplaneeditor.jar: ../ freeplaneeditor.jar freeplaneviewer.jar fre

Xalan & Java security bug on FreeMind

2011-04-16 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, could anybody have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/619140 and tell me what the following could mean: java.lang.RuntimeException: Use of the extension function 'xalan://freemind.main.HtmlTools:replaceSpacesToNonbreakableSpaces' is not allowed when the secure processing feature is set to

Re: Next question for help in Java packaging: beast-mcmc

2011-03-13 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 12/03/11 12:13, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: Third try: if I explicitly set classpath with this line java -cp /usr/share/beast-mcmc/lib/beast.jar:/usr/share/java/jam.jar:/usr/share/java/jdom1.jar:/usr/share/java/jebl.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-math.jar dr.app.beast.BeastMain then the pro

Re: ant dependencies for javascript scriptdef

2010-10-24 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, On 22/10/10 23:57, Ximin Luo wrote: On 22/10/10 22:43, Ludovic Claude wrote: It works probably because you are using Java 6, which is already bundling rhino.jar and the scripting API. It would be better to keep an explicit dependency on rhino.jar, and you may need also bsf.jar for a Java

RFS: freeplane - A Java program to create and edit mind maps

2010-07-19 Thread Eric Lavarde
entors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/freeplane/freeplane_1.1.1-1.dsc - and also present in Svn-Java svn+ssh://ewl-gu...@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-java/trunk/freeplane I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind r

Re: Uploading fop 1.0 to experimental

2010-07-18 Thread Eric Lavarde
Something else: $ dpkg -L fop | grep 0.95 /usr/share/java/fop-0.95.jar /usr/share/maven-repo/org/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/0.95 /usr/share/maven-repo/org/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/0.95/fop-0.95.pom /usr/share/maven-repo/org/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/0.95/fop-0.95.jar The names and links surely need to be

Re: Uploading fop 1.0 to experimental

2010-07-18 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello Mathieu, On 16/07/10 11:59, mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I have prepared the debian package for fop 1.0. I would like to upload it to experimental so that people can start playing with it. Does this seems resonable, or should I just go ahead and upload to unstable ? Thank

RFS: freeplane - A Java program to create and edit mind maps

2010-07-18 Thread Eric Lavarde
va I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Eric Lavarde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c42ae10@zorglub.s.bawue.de

Re: Uploading fop 1.0 to experimental

2010-07-16 Thread Eric Lavarde
On 16/07/10 14:39, Vincent Fourmond wrote: I would suggest uploading to experimental and to give some time to people to check the persistance (or not) of existing bugs, and then send the whole thing to unstable, in a couple of weeks. I would suggest pinging people using fop as a build depends;

Sponsor needed [Fwd: 'knopflerfish-osgi' uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2010-05-23 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, could someone sponsor the below package? I need it in order to get Freeplane in Debian. Matthew, wo reviewed it already, expressed lack of time to finalize sponsoring. Thanks, Eric PS: sources are also in pkg-java SVN. Original Message Subject: 'knopflerfish-osgi' u

Re: future of libjibx*-java

2010-05-08 Thread Eric Lavarde
On 09/05/10 03:03, Torsten Werner wrote: Hi Eric, On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Eric Lavarde wrote: Once JiBx1.2 is available in Ubuntu, I'll abandon my blockade. but may we remove version 1.0 from the archive at least? Yes, please, do. Thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: future of libjibx*-java

2010-05-08 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, ergh, sorry but I rolled-back this change as I packaged the next version of FreeMind (0.9.0~rc7, uploaded 2 seconds ago on mentors). Reason: I want the FreeMind package to keep working under Debian and Ubuntu without having to keep 2 sets of patches (or even having to rebuild the pack

Re: [Summery] Re: Integrating the FOSDEM 06 Draft into the Java Policy

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Niels Thykier wrote: Eric Lavarde wrote: Vincent Fourmond wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Eric Lavarde wrote: one more thing: we could actually also get rid of all javaX-runtime where X < 6, or is there any package left in Debian that provides only less than java6? Package:

Re: [Summery] Re: Integrating the FOSDEM 06 Draft into the Java Policy

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Vincent Fourmond wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Eric Lavarde wrote: one more thing: we could actually also get rid of all javaX-runtime where X < 6, or is there any package left in Debian that provides only less than java6? Package: gcj-4.4-jre Provides: java-runtime, java1-runt

Re: [Summery] Re: Integrating the FOSDEM 06 Draft into the Java

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
27;t fully coherent. Eric Matthew Johnson wrote: On Fri Mar 26 17:37, Eric Lavarde wrote: They should build-depend on default-jdk and depend on default-jre | javaN-runtime I have some problems with this: 1. the policy states something like "javaX-runtime fulfills the Java X specification

Re: [Summery] Re: Integrating the FOSDEM 06 Draft into the Java Policy

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, one more thing: we could actually also get rid of all javaX-runtime where X < 6, or is there any package left in Debian that provides only less than java6? Backport might be a concern, but then sun-java5 is not present in older versions than sun-java6, so... Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: [Summery] Re: Integrating the FOSDEM 06 Draft into the Java Policy

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, Matthew Johnson wrote: But, from your patches, I understand that javaX-runtime survives and that we add default-jre/jdk (default-j) into the picture, which, depending on the platform, provides either cp-j or java-j, because they pull gcj-j or openjdk-j. IMO javaX-runtime should be

Re: [Summery] Re: Integrating the FOSDEM 06 Draft into the Java Policy

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Niels, I have some problems to understand the resulting document, not knowing what the baseline is, but after reading through the patches, I think that the new policy doesn't address the main problem which is the fact that we have 2 incompatible runtime (and compiling/building) environment

Java Policy [was: 'knopflerfish-osgi' uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2010-03-21 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, subject change to reflect topic change... Niels Thykier wrote: Yes, I am guilty here. On a related note, does anyone know if the draft [1] has been ratified or it is just a "proposed" change? If it is the latter then lets get (the parts of) it (we want) approved so I can integrate them. No

Re: [Fwd: 'knopflerfish-osgi' uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2010-03-21 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Matthew, thanks for the review. Some questions back (if I removed your remark, I just accepted it). Matthew Johnson wrote: - there is a debian/patches/debian-changes* patch which has been autogenerated by dpkg-source. Looks like the clean target doesn't remove knopflerfish-osg

Ping-pong between gij and ant?

2010-03-14 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, are these 2 reassignments within 6 hours normal? Or should we discuss about it before it escalates? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571532 Eric --- Begin Message --- Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 571532 ant Bug #571532 [gij] gij: Bus error w

Re: [Fwd: 'knopflerfish-osgi' uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2010-03-13 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello again, I was rightly pointed to the fact that I had forgotten to put the sources in SVN (thanks for the hint, Niels); it's now done and available under svn+ssh://ewl-gu...@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-java/trunk/knopflerfish-osgi So, still waiting for a DD, Thanks, Eric Eric Lavarde

[Fwd: 'freemind' uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2010-03-13 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello again, I have a very small update of FreeMind necessary to overcome a problem with ant 1.8. Could some DD upload the changes for me? Thanks, Eric --- Begin Message --- Your upload of the package 'freemind' to mentors.debian.net was successful. Sponsors can now download it. The URL of you

[Fwd: 'knopflerfish-osgi' uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2010-03-13 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, would some DD be so kind as to upload knopflerfish-osgi? It's an OSGI framework implementation, and a dependency of Freeplane, which I'm also planning to package for Debian. Thanks, Eric --- Begin Message --- Your upload of the package 'knopflerfish-osgi' to mentors.debian.net was succ

Re: New packager (fwd to debian-java)

2010-03-13 Thread Eric Lavarde
rt in this way. Exist a guide or an howto which describe the packaging process for Java applications? thanks, Fabrizio On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Eric Lavarde <mailto:e...@lavar.de>> wrote: Hi Fabrizio, I'm not a DD, but nobody has answered yet, so let me try.

Re: New packager (fwd to debian-java)

2010-03-13 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Fabrizio, I'm not a DD, but nobody has answered yet, so let me try. First, the kind of help you're expecting is a bit vague, so my answer might not be what you expect. For your first package, my recommendation would be to take the simplest package with the least dependencies (and dependen

Re: Bug#571532: gij: Bus error when executing ant

2010-02-28 Thread Eric Lavarde
Torsten Werner wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: We should think about having 2 versions of ant in Debian. I mean: having 2 upstream major versions of ant by default and not just as a quick fix as we have it now. But the unversioned ant should always point to the l

Re: Bug#571532: gij: Bus error when executing ant

2010-02-28 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello again, sorry to reply to myself, but I wanted to install ant1.7 and found out that it can't be installed in parallel with ant (1.8); as we might end up with a situation where certain packages will build correctly with Ant 1.7 and others with 1.8, I'm not sure this is viable. Any idea (

Re: Bug#571532: gij: Bus error when executing ant

2010-02-28 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Torsten, Torsten Werner wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Eric Lavarde wrote: I'm not a big Java specialist, just a packager, but we've seen quite a lot of FTBFS bugs due to the upload of ant 1.8. I'm personally hit by one for FreeMind, so I would support Matthias&#x

Re: Bug#571532: gij: Bus error when executing ant

2010-02-27 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, Short version: +1 Matthias Klose wrote: We are short before the freeze; the release architectures still include architectures which require gij in it's current form (hppa, kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64). Please either port OpenJDK to these archs (hey, you're still an OpenJDK maintai

[Fwd: Bug#571376: freemind: FTBFS: freemind plugins do not exist]

2010-02-26 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hello, I got the below message, and I suspect that it's due to the recent upgrade of ant to 1.8.0. Has someone already encountered this kind of error, and give me a hint if I'm right in my suspicion and how to fix it? I'm also assuming that I won't be the only one hit by this error... Thanks, Er

Re: About source format 3.0

2009-11-14 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I'm using heavily svn-buildpackage, so I won't switch until it's supported. Furthermore, it makes multi-platform packaging (Debian, older Debian, Ubuntu, etc...) more difficult. And honestly, I don't understand why we should switch "as a team". It's a packager's and sponsor's decision, n

Re: Latest sun java5 packages

2009-09-22 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Diederik, are you planning to put the packages in a publicly available repository? I'd be interested. Eric Dalibor Topic said: > Diederik de Haas wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Some time ago it was decided that the sun java 5 packages should be >> removed from the archives (EOL) >> and now they have. >>

Re: Java packages in main depending on non-free java.

2009-09-19 Thread Eric Lavarde
Torsten Werner wrote: This is a false positive because the first alternative dep is openjdk-6-jre. Same for libjibx-java... Eric Cheers, Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: java-problem in lenny

2009-07-07 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Claudia Neumann wrote: With Sid there is no error. Seems to be a problem with lenny. I did the same with lenny and in that chroot fresh lenny installation there is no error. I will try to compare the packages. What can possibly change the behavior of th keyGenerator class? I would fir

Re: Active Java packagers

2009-06-15 Thread Eric Lavarde
Marcus Better wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Johnson wrote: who is still active here and interested in the Java packaging policy? count me in. Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Java Help on Debian

2008-11-18 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, you probably need to set the CLASSPATH environment variable to the listed JAR files, wherever you put them, I would recommend NOT in Java's own directories (I tend to put local JARs to /usr/local/share/java, then CLASSPATH=/usr/local/share/java/odinms.jar:/usr/local/share/java/xttools.jar:etc.

re: libgdata-java: java bytecode / java runtime version mismatch

2008-10-31 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, peter green said: >>It is preferred to build the bytecode so that it runs on older jvms. >>This is done passing '-source 1.[45]' to javac (or for cdbs ant tasks >>setting ANT_OPTS to -Dant.build.javac.source=1.[45]. > > are you sure, the javac manpage only states that option affects the > vers

Re: java bytecode / java runtime version mismatch

2008-10-28 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, I thought, you need to set ant.build.javac.source _and_ ant.build.javac.target to be on the safe side (resp. -target and -source)? Wouldn't it make sense to "police" this? i.e. to state that all packages should be explicitly compiled with 1.5 source/target unless they use 6's features? Eric

Re: Debian featuring http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/ ?

2008-10-06 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Steffen, I'd like to say "Free Jimi!". Seriously, this library is under "Sun Microsystems, Inc. Binary Code License Agreement", hence not free, not even free enough for "non-free" because the license forbids redistribution. The program you're interested to package, if it's distributed with the

Re: For those who care about batik

2008-09-20 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I thought that Batik 1.7 is not backwards compatible with Batik 1.6 (I remember vaguely to have issues with this). If I'm right, wouldn't it make sense to have a batik1.7 package name and keep batik (1.6)? Thanks, Eric Vincent Fourmond wrote: Hello, I've done quite a good deal of w

Sun's graphic art for Java

2008-09-08 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, the icons set distributed by Sun under [1] doesn't respond to the DFSG criteria (point ii of the -attached- license doesn't allow for modifications, as pointed out by my sponsor, in cc), hence a few questions and remarks: 1. From the look&feel of different java apps, the icon set is relativel

Re: Packaging Java Tomcat web app howto ?

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
As an after-thought: you might want to check an existing web app package and adapt it to your needs. From the description, tomcat5.5-webapps might be a good fit. Hope this helps, Eric Eric Lavarde - Debian said: > Hi Olivier, > > I move this thread to debian-java, where it belongs :-)

Re: Packaging Java Tomcat web app howto ?

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Olivier, I move this thread to debian-java, where it belongs :-) - debian-mentors in Bcc I think that the short answer is that there is no such howto, but I might be wrong: - there was a thread about the topic http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2007/12/msg00039.html (and you can search furthe

Searching for a sponsor for SimplyHTML

2008-08-03 Thread Eric Lavarde
iner ownership, and it's a dependency for the yet-to-come-to-be-released-at-some-point-in-time FreeMind 0.9.0. Kind regards Eric Lavarde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cleanup in .orig.tar.gz or debian/rules?

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Onkar, Onkar Shinde wrote: What is wrong with cleaning up prebuilt jar files in clean target in debian/rules? If you use this approach you don't have to repack the upstream tarball every time there is a new version. Is there any policy against this approach? If yes, can you please point me to

Re: Apache Commons packaging question

2008-07-16 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Manuel, Manuel Prinz said: > Hi all, > > I thought about packaging the Apache Commons Math Library[1] which I use > regularly. I do have a some question though and would like to ask you > for your opinion on that: > > 1. Other commons source packages seem to be renamed to libcommon-*-java. > Do

Re: Sponsor for jaranalyzer package needed

2008-07-08 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Florian, Florian Grandel said: >> Can it be used to track changes in the method signatures or does it just >> analyze inter-jar depenedencies? > > No, method signatures are not checked. The tool just analyzes inter-jar > dependencies similar to java-propose-classpath within Matthew's > javahelp

Re: About java virtual dependencies and provides and the Java

2008-06-05 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, my email was the last one in the chain, but I don't consider it was a conclusive one. Thanks, Eric Eric Lavarde - Debian said: > Hi, > > Michael Koch said: >> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:17:13PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: >>> On Wed May 21 22:06, Michael

Re: About java virtual dependencies and provides and the Java

2008-05-24 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Michael Koch said: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:17:13PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: >> On Wed May 21 22:06, Michael Koch wrote: >> >> > Debian supports only Java 5+ compatible runtimes in unstable. >> >> Almost compatible >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35020 (amongst other

About java virtual dependencies and provides and the Java Policy

2008-05-11 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, browsing through the repositories to check some Java stuff, I find quite some confusion around virtual packages: icedtea-java7-jre provides: java-runtime, java2-runtime, java5-runtime, java6-runtime, java7-runtime icedtea-java7-jdk provides: java-sdk, java2-sdk, java5-sdk, java6-sdk, jav

Re: Automatic build/pdebuild with sun-java-jdk

2008-05-11 Thread Eric Lavarde
Good stuff documented to http://wiki.debian.org/JavaFAQ Eric Manuel Prinz wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 08.05.2008, 22:27 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: Am Donnerstag, den 08.05.2008, 21:04 +0200 schrieb Benjamin Mesing: sudo pbuilder login --save-after-login echo "sun-java5-jdk shared/accepted-su

OpenJDK 6 in Debian? Main, contrib or non-free?

2008-05-11 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I noticed that FreeMind works with OpenJDK 6 (as present in Ubuntu 8.04). Is this package supposed to come to Debian, and will it be in main, contrib or non-free? Slightly unrelated question: what about icedtea7, it seems to be stuck at a mix of b21/b22 since quite a while?.. Thanks, E

Re: [Fwd: Problem wth Java Runtime Environment Plugin for Iceweasel/Firefox...]

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Michael Koch wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:14:29PM +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi, your first move to write to debian-user was the right one, debian-java is meant for Java package developers, not for Java users. JFTR: debian-java is for Java developers *AND* users. I'm happy t

Re: [Fwd: Problem wth Java Runtime Environment Plugin for Iceweasel/Firefox...]

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, your first move to write to debian-user was the right one, debian-java is meant for Java package developers, not for Java users. This said, your easiest move is probably to remove java-gcj-compat-plugin and install sun-java5-plugin (or sun-java6-plugin, can't remember if it was already o

Re: Where do you install local (not packaged) java libraries (.jar files)?

2008-03-07 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Javier, a slightly off-topic question you have here... Javier Barroso said: > Hi, > > We have jar files that not appears in any debian package. I'm thinking > where coul I put it. > > Is /usr/local/share/java the location that I am searching ? The Java Policy doesn't say anything about this, b

Re: Introducing distro-{jre,jre-headless,jdk,jdk-builddep} packages

2008-03-03 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Matthias, I don't see the advantage of this approach over well defined virtual packages, which I notice you seem anyway to implicitly expect (java5-runtime, java5-sdk, etc...). Can you perhaps elaborate a bit on this? Thanks, Eric Matthias Klose wrote: [sent to debian-java@lists.debian.o

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Michael Koch said: > I'm currently working on a proposal for cleaning up the virtual package > chaos. Please give me some more days for this. Fair enough, let's consider as a warm up for the discussion that will come once you'll show your proposal ;-) Thanks, Eric -- You don't need to CC m

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Michael Koch said: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:32:46AM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: >> - the Java Policy should state that a Java package should depend on >> java2-runtime only if the packager expects its program to work with a >> classpath-alike implementation of

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi everybody, OK, second try at getting a common understanding: - the Java Policy should state that a Java package should depend on java2-runtime only if the packager expects its program to work with a classpath-alike implementation of Java. (what about IcedTea then?) - in the words of Michael:

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Matthias Klose wrote: Eric Lavarde writes: Hi everybody, thanks for your answers, it looks like we don't have yet a consensus. Let me try to suggest one. POINT 1: I would suggest to modify the Java Policy along these lines: - the specific java runtimes listed before java(2)-ru

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi everybody, thanks for your answers, it looks like we don't have yet a consensus. Let me try to suggest one. POINT 1: I would suggest to modify the Java Policy along these lines: - the specific java runtimes listed before java(2)-runtime are the ones tested by the packager, and for which h

FreeMind and gcj [Re: Help needed on the Java policy]

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Andrew, Andrew Haley wrote: I guess it depends on whether the program fails because a particular runtime has bugs or because the program depends on something it shouldn't use, such as com.sun.* classes. We're pretty complete with respect to 1.4, so I'd like to know what this problem actually

Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-27 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I'm fighting a bit with the current state of the Java policy, and it has hit pretty hard because FreeMind isn't in testing anymore because of this (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=436206). OK, starting from the beginning: 1. FreeMind 0.7.1 works only with Sun's Java (

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-12 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Vincent Fourmond wrote: - debug output of java version found, and how the java command was found (it helps a great lot when users ask for help and have e.g. a dangling environment variable). When DEBUG_WRAPPERS is set, the JAVA_HOME found is written. Thanks, my point was also to call jav

Re: icedtea status?

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, > > > > I agree that we have to take care when moving from contrib to main and > > that we have problems when some package in main works *only* with > > icedtea. IMO it is a good policy to file bugs against not working > runtimes > > in this case so people know the problems and can work o

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-06 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Vincent, comparing the wrapper script from FreeMind, version 0.9.0, not yet in Debian [1], and your script, I'm missing the following features: - no check that JAVA_CMD actually exists and is executable if the variable is set. - /usr/bin/java as last fallback if nothing else helps. - debu

Re: Remove groovy

2007-12-12 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Torsten, Torsten Werner said: > Debian's groovy 0.1 currently FTBFS because libmockobject-java has > been removed from sid, which it is broken by itself. Groovy 1.0 needs > radeox which is not packaged (yet) but I had some discussions with > upstream. I'll check the brand new version 1.5 ASAP.

Re: Remove groovy

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I kindly object to having groovy removed! I absolutely need it for the next FreeMind release, that I expect to get in Debian at last! In response to Marcus (Better), I looked a while ago in groovy and there were still some packages missing, but, in deed, doing a better job than currently

Re: Bug#448286: java-common: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Almost all Java libraries should be in section libs.

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Lavarde
Answering to myself, but here new list with the Source name... Eric depends_on_java.source.txt.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Bug#448286: java-common: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Almost all Java libraries should be in section libs.

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Lavarde
, 2007 at 10:59:04PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: Eric Lavarde writes: Hi, number of binary packages is relatively easy if it doesn't need to be precise: $ aptitude -F '%20p %13s' search '~Djava' | wc -l 419 (all packages depending on packages containing java in their

Re: Bug#448286: java-common: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Almost all Java libraries should be in section libs.

2007-10-28 Thread Eric Lavarde
;a proposal for archive admins"? Are you referring to some part of the Debian policy I should actually know about? (well, I'm no DD, so I've got an excuse) Cheers, Eric Matthias Klose wrote: Michael Koch writes: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote: P

Bug#448286: java-common: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Almost all Java libraries should be in section libs.

2007-10-27 Thread Eric Lavarde
Package: java-common Version: 0.26 Severity: wishlist Hello, in section 2.4 "Java libraries" it should be specified that packages containing such libraries should belong to the 'libs' section and not to the 'devel' section. As Java libraries, to the difference of C libraries, are at the same t

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