Re: What should I do if migration is blocked by autopkgtest failing on a dependency?

2025-03-23 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Am Sonntag, dem 23.03.2025 um 08:50 +0100 schrieb PICCA Frederic- Emmanuel: > It seems that all test PASS. So in this case retriggering helped, thanks. But hints to documentation would be still nice. I might need it the next time. Sincerely, Joachim

What should I do if migration is blocked by autopkgtest failing on a dependency?

2025-03-23 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. A package I just uploaded [1] is blocked. Are there any guidelines on what I am expected to do? Should I create a bug for the blocking package? Sincerely, Joachim [1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=mosquitto

Re: RFS: netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-7

2013-12-06 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Donnerstag, den 05.12.2013, 07:58 +0100 schrieb Joachim Zobel: > I'll append a summary to the pu and ask for going directly to stable. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728906 Sincerely, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.or

Git policy on undoing

2013-12-05 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Is there a git policy concerning on undoing commits. I have committed and pushed) a first attempt to build netbeans with openjdk-7, which is most likely obsolete (and not working on unstable). Should I delete it or should I commit an inverse change. Sincerely, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: RFS: netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-7

2013-12-04 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Mittwoch, den 04.12.2013, 08:00 +0100 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: > You should be able to build with both versions of Ant by adding some > type casting. Doing this would make the change less suitable for stable. Currently the change adds half a dozen lines to the launcher script and modifies a line

Re: RFS: netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-7

2013-12-04 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Mittwoch, den 04.12.2013, 14:19 +0100 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > Well, in this case, Joachim, we should consider a different plan of action: > * get in touch with the release team about the situation (that Debian > unstable is too different from stable to upload first -6 in unstable > without ch

Re: RFS: netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-7

2013-12-03 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Montag, den 02.12.2013, 20:19 +0100 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > Yeh. I tried to build it with an hardcoded dependency on java 6 but it > failed. > > If someone could try to build a netbeans 7.0.1+dfsg1-6 in unstable > (needed before going to stable), I will upload it. Is that, what you tried?

Re: RFS: netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-6 - This is a little bit important

2013-11-25 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Montag, den 25.11.2013, 11:58 +0100 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > With openjdk-7-jdk:amd64 (7u25-2.3.12-4) The netbeans package does not build with openjdk-7. Since my intention was to change as little as possible and since I am not very knowledgeable about java packaging I did not change that. I

Re: RFS: netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-6 - This is a little bit important

2013-11-24 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Since no one has uploaded this yet I wanted to advertise this a bit. The netbeans package is currently broken, in that you can't create projects (#720684), SVN is not working (#698514, #668015) and the GUI builder is not working (#677125, #653915). This affects stable, the package is inte

Re: RFS: netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-6

2013-11-07 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Donnerstag, den 07.11.2013, 22:46 +0100 schrieb Matthias Klose: > Am 06.11.2013 21:11, schrieb Joachim Zobel: > > * Workaround for bug #720684 in openjdk-6-jdk. > > - Changes the jdk dependency to openjdk-7-jdk. > > - Changes the laucher script to use openjd

RFS: netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-6

2013-11-06 Thread Joachim Zobel
ug #698514 (Closes: #698514, Closes: #668015). Adds a classpath command line argument in the launcher. * Workaround for bug #677125 (Closes: #677125, Closes: #653915). Adds a classpath command line argument in the launcher. -- Joachim Zobel Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:46:31 +0100 The packag

Re: Are there any java7-jdk providers other then openjdk-7-jdk?

2013-11-03 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Samstag, den 02.11.2013, 13:42 -0700 schrieb tony mancill: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 09:39:46PM +0100, Joachim Zobel wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 27.10.2013, 18:01 +0100 schrieb Matthias Klose: > > > how does it "reduce complexity"? > > > > The diff of

Re: Are there any java7-jdk providers other then openjdk-7-jdk?

2013-11-02 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Sonntag, den 27.10.2013, 18:01 +0100 schrieb Matthias Klose: > how does it "reduce complexity"? The diff of the launcher script is about 5-10 lines shorter if I am not searching for a suitable java7 (which I can't reliably identify anyway) but go straight for openjdk-7-jdk. Sincerely, Joachim

Re: Are there any java7-jdk providers other then openjdk-7-jdk?

2013-10-26 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Samstag, den 26.10.2013, 08:30 -0700 schrieb tony mancill: > So you'll note that the provides is for java7-sdk (not java7-jdk). > The > JDK gets installed into /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-x64/ This tell me that my searching for a usable java7 did not work with oracle java. So I'll go for openjdk-

Are there any java7-jdk providers other then openjdk-7-jdk?

2013-10-26 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. There are none in wheezy, are there any outside of debian? ubuntu? oracle? (I found I can reduce complexity of my netbeans patch if I go straight for openjdk-7-jdk instead of java7-jdk). Sincerely, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: How do I express that a package is meant for stable?

2013-10-26 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Freitag, den 25.10.2013, 22:59 -0700 schrieb Vincent Cheng: > Essentially, you have to request permission from the > release team first What is the best way to do that? Sincerely, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: How do I express that a package is meant for stable?

2013-10-25 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Unfortunately it is what I want. So what I need to do is to write an RFS requesting an upload to proposed-updates. This should explain in detail why I think this is appropriate (Fixes important bugs). Shouldn't the changelog say netbeans (7.0.1+dfsg1-6) stable; urgency=medium in this case?

How do I express that a package is meant for stable?

2013-10-25 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. I have a netbeans package that fixes three bugs by working around and which is intended for stable. How do I express this? Is a changelog entry netbeans (7.0.1+dfsg1-6) unstable; urgency=medium the right way? Sincerely, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.deb

Could any kind soul please ...

2013-10-21 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. I am still trying to get netbeans fixed. As far as I have understood the next step is to push my changes to the git repository. To do this I need to be a member of the pkg-java project on the fusion forge web site at alioth.debian.org. Correct? Could any kind soul with the authority to do so

Please review - netbeans_7.0.1+dfsg1-6

2013-10-14 Thread Joachim Zobel
(7.0.1+dfsg1-6) stable; urgency=medium + + * Workaround for bug #720684 in openjdk-6-jdk. + * Workaround for bug #698514 (Closes: #698514). + + -- Joachim Zobel Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:47:04 +0200 + netbeans (7.0.1+dfsg1-5) unstable; urgency=low * Include junit library definitions. diff --git

java7-jdk vs java7-sdk

2013-10-11 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Why do both exist? openjdk7 only provides java7-jdk, is this correct? Sicerely, Joachim jo@backspace:~/projects/debian/netbeans$ aptitude show java7-jdk No current or candidate version found for java7-jdk Package: java7-jdk State: not a real package Provided by: openjdk-7-jdk jo@backspace:~/

Somewhat desperate

2013-10-01 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Now I know what to do but I find myself unable to do it. I am using the debian wheezy package sources from git and I can't create a patch. What I would do is to have the package depend on java-7 only and to change the ide-launcher to the attached one. However my only option seems to be to m

Documentation on package maintenance

2013-09-27 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Is there any documentation on maintaining existing packages. The docs I find focus on how to create a package. I myself currently try to find out how the netbeans package from git works. I will find out, but it could be a lot easier with a few one liners and a short explanation of their contex

netbeans java dependencies Java

2013-09-22 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. To to create a patch that works around http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720684 I want to modify the netbeans dependencies in a way that says "Can depend on any java 6 or java 7, but not openjdk 6. " Can I express this with debian dependencies? Looking at the control file it se

netbeans startup script not in git ?

2013-09-22 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Checking the cloned netbeans git repository with git gives me $ find * -name netbeans -executable -type f debian/netbeans/usr/share/netbeans/7.0.1/bin/netbeans debian/netbeans/usr/bin/netbeans nbbuild/netbeans/bin/netbeans Those three files are all reported as untracked by git: $ git statu

Re: Runtime JVM != compile time JDK - acceptable?

2013-09-20 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Thanks for pointing out the difference between conffiles and configuration files. Since there is no java-7 symlink in /etc/alternatives I think I'll have to choose the java 7 at startup. This is most likely best done in the netbeans startup script. Thanks, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Runtime JVM != compile time JDK - acceptable?

2013-09-19 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. An obvious workaround for http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720684 would be to set the runtime jvm to java-7-openjdk while keeping the compile time JVM at java 6. Is this acceptable or does it violate any policies? If so, what would be a good way to do this? Adding a reasona

Getting started with netbeans

2013-09-15 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. To find out how netbeans packaging works I cloned the netbeans git repository mentioned in the source package. Question is what to do now. Running jh_make in the netbeans directory made me change the directory name to add the version. It then asked me questions (Which build system) that gave

Re: Openjdk-6 bug hurts netbeans

2013-09-11 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Mittwoch, den 11.09.2013, 22:17 +0200 schrieb Matthias Klose: > No, at least this version has a check for 6 built in. Please check for > 7.4. What kind of check do you mean? Sure it is still there? netbeans --jdkhome /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 starts without complaining. Or is this becau

Re: Openjdk-6 bug hurts netbeans

2013-09-11 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Mittwoch, den 11.09.2013, 22:19 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > * Join the debian pkg-java team on alioth How do I do that? > * package the new upstream release if any This can not go into stable/wheezy, right? > * fix bugs (like "yours") on the Debian and Ubuntu bug tracker I would consider

Openjdk-6 bug hurts netbeans

2013-09-11 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. I did report the following bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720684 which makes netbeans half way unusable. Should I write a referencing netbeans bug report? Could you move netbeans to openjdk-7 as a workaround? Sincerely, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Openjdk-6 bug hurts netbeans

2013-09-11 Thread Joachim Zobel
Am Mittwoch, den 11.09.2013, 21:06 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > However, it does not seem > maintained anymore: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/netbeans.html I already had that impression. I reported http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698514 in January that did not show any ac