Re: relicense the eclipse-emf/debian files from EPL-1 to Apache-2.0

2018-12-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Jochen Sprickerhof: > Hi, > > eclipse-emf moved from EPL-1 to EPL-2. I would like to relicense the > debian/ folder to Apache-2.0 to get rid of EPL-1 in there. Would you be > ok with that? > > The current copyright is: > > Files: debian/* > Copyright: 2010, Debian Orbital Alignment Team > > Lic

Re: Wheezy update of jetty?

2017-06-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Chris Lamb: > Dear maintainer(s), > > The Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are > currently open in the Wheezy version of jetty: > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/jetty > Hi Chris, As I recall, almost(?) all of the people you have explicitly

Re: [stretch] jnr-posix/3.0.12-3 and #860691

2017-04-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Markus Koschany: > Hi, > > Am 29.04.2017 um 23:22 schrieb Niels Thykier: >> Hi, >> >> I have opted to stretch-ignore #860691 instead of unblocking the >> jnr-posix/3.0.12-3 upload for now. >> >> If the tests are simply wrong on i386, then that is fine

[stretch] jnr-posix/3.0.12-3 and #860691

2017-04-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, I have opted to stretch-ignore #860691 instead of unblocking the jnr-posix/3.0.12-3 upload for now. If the tests are simply wrong on i386, then that is fine and the fix can wait until buster (or you are welcome to patch them in a -4 upload for stretch if there is time for that). Should it t

Re: Bug#786895: lintian: incompatible-java-bytecode-format warning needs update for Java 1.7

2015-05-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-05-26 17:25, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2015, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> I agree that the is a good idea to clarify this. My personal >> recommendation is to declare that: >> >> * gcj-jdk is not considered a suitable Java implementation f

Re: Bug#786895: lintian: incompatible-java-bytecode-format warning needs update for Java 1.7

2015-05-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-05-26 16:35, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Markus Koschany wrote: >> I think it is time to adjust the lintian warning about >> "incompatible-java-bytecode-format". The current version of Lintian >> still warns about Java 1.7 bytecode, however Java 1.7 is the default >> in Jessie and it is

Re: Bug#786895: lintian: incompatible-java-bytecode-format warning needs update for Java 1.7

2015-05-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-05-26 16:52, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 03:58:49PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: >> I think it is time to adjust the lintian warning about >> "incompatible-java-bytecode-format". The current version of Lintian >> still warns about Java 1.7 bytecode, however Jav

Re: Bug#786895: lintian: incompatible-java-bytecode-format warning needs update for Java 1.7

2015-05-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-05-26 16:35, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Markus Koschany wrote: >> I think it is time to adjust the lintian warning about >> "incompatible-java-bytecode-format". The current version of Lintian >> still warns about Java 1.7 bytecode, however Java 1.7 is the default >> in Jessie and it is

Proposal to do regular jenkins updates via jessie-updates (Was: Re: Removing Jenkins from Jessie)

2015-04-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-08 22:45, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:17:59 +0200, Niels Thykier escribió: >> [...] >> >> I had a chat with James Page and Emmanuel Bourg about Jenkins over IRC. >> We concluded that it was infeasible for Debian to maintain Jenkins due

Removing Jenkins from Jessie

2015-04-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, I had a chat with James Page and Emmanuel Bourg about Jenkins over IRC. We concluded that it was infeasible for Debian to maintain Jenkins due to the lack of upstream commitment to a LTS release-cycle of sufficient length to match the length of Jessie[1]. Accordingly, we agreed to remove the

Re: Updating Eclipse

2015-01-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-01-09 20:21, Markus Koschany wrote: > Hi Pascal, > > On 09.01.2015 19:43, Pascal Rapicault wrote: >> Hi, >> Hi Pascal, (NB: Please CC me explicit on replies as I am not subscribed to debian-java) For reference, I am more than happy to provide advice and technical aid where possible. But

Re: Retiring as Debian Java Maintainer

2014-11-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, First of, thanks for all of you kind replies. :) I have removed myself from the alioth project (I used to be an administrator) and unsubscribed from both mailing lists. Accordingly please CC me on further replies. :) I will stay in #debian-java for a while though. I also sent a bug to a

Retiring as Debian Java Maintainer

2014-11-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, I am no longer actively maintaining any Java packages. This mail is simply announcing this fact. I am very happy to have been a part of the team, which welcomed me with open arms 4½ years ago, when Debian was new to me. It is a thing I believe you can all be proud of and I am certainly hap

Re: Status of netbeans

2014-08-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-08-14 09:52, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > even if I have no idea why according to > >https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=igv > > igv depends from netbeans (any explanation for this would be interesting > as well) I wonder if anybody might care about this package which is not

Re: Bug#708350: transition: java7

2014-06-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-06-30 08:16, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 29/06/2014 18:58, Steven Chamberlain a écrit : > >> I presume openjdk-6 removal is the last thing to be done here. >> ftpmaster can't do that until icedtea-web stops building >> icedtea-6-plugin I think: https://bugs.debian.org/720911#36 > > There

Re: Bug#752397: javahelper doesn't add libswt-cairo-gtk-3-jni when {java:Depends} is specified

2014-06-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-06-24 10:00, Pirate Praveen wrote: > [adding debian-java list] > > On Tuesday 24 June 2014 10:14 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2014-06-23 14:14, Praveen Arimbrathodiyil wrote: >>> package: javahelper, libswt-gtk-3-java >>> severity: important >>&

Re: SVN to Git migration script for pkg-java

2014-06-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-06-05 09:40, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > git: 'svn' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. Looks like a dependency on "git svn", try installing git-svn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: svnkit is marked for autoremoval from testing

2014-03-31 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-03-31 17:11, Markus Koschany wrote: > On 31.03.2014 15:40, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > [...] >> Help with this is more than welcome, of course. > > I have committed some changes to svnkit two weeks ago and tried to build > the latest upstream release. [1] My impression is that we need a new >

Re: join to pkg-java

2014-02-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-09 21:29, Adrian Alves wrote: > I already did that > > > [...] Hi, I noticed, you send your request on the 3rd of Feb. There is a chance that an admin already approved your application before you sent your mail to debian-java. The annoying thing is that you (as a requestee) receive

Re: RFP: icu4j-49 -- a library for Unicode support and internationalization

2014-01-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-26 01:15, Hilko Bengen wrote: > * Emmanuel Bourg: > >> Would it be possible to upgrade the existing icu4j package >> instead? japi-compliance-checked reports a compatibility of 80%. >> Here are the issues found by clirr: >> >> ERROR: 8001: com.ibm.icu.impl.ByteBuffer: Class >> com.ibm.

Re: Dump java.library.path used

2013-12-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-12-10 16:03, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > [CC me please] > > I am currently starring at: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731778 > > Apparently java.library.path is not automatically set for this user. > Does anyone know a way to dump the list of java.library.path at >

default-java and openjdk-7 on sparc

2013-11-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-09 14:35, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > (With my Java hat on and my Release hat off) > > We are getting close to being able to remove openjdk-6 from sid and > testing. However, there is major blocker, which is java-common itself > (and its default-* binaries).

Bug#729227: out of date http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch-browser-java.html

2013-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: java-common Control: submitter -1 tom.jo...@bccx.com On 2013-11-10 12:44, Tom Jones wrote: > Dear Torsten, Niels, and Javier, > > Any chance you could update [1] for Debian 7 (wheezy)? Currently it > only goes up to Debian 6 (squeeze). Also, if you are going to use > codenames, it is n

Replacing openjdk-6 with gcj-jdk as default java for mips{,el}

2013-11-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, (With my Java hat on and my Release hat off) We are getting close to being able to remove openjdk-6 from sid and testing. However, there is major blocker, which is java-common itself (and its default-* binaries). mips and mipsel are the only two architectures still using OpenJDK 6 as defaul

Re: RFS: eclipselink 2.5.1-1 (updated package)

2013-11-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-27 23:22, Andrew Ross wrote: > Dear Debian Java Team members, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my update to the package eclipselink. > This is a dependency of the latest version of Netbeans. > > The changelog is as follows: > > eclipselink (2.5.1-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * Ne

Re: RFS: maven/3.0.5-1 - [UPLOADED]

2013-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-30 09:25, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 30/10/2013 05:45, tony mancill a écrit : > >> Uploaded and tagged. By the way, we seem to be bitten by #714698 >> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714698) with respect >> to pristine-tar. It cannot, in fact, regenerate the orig tar

Re: Javahelper automatic depends

2013-10-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-07 19:37, Wookey wrote: > I just packaged caveconverter (a fairly small simple command-line java > package), which uses ant as a build system. > (currently in new: > http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/caveconverter_0~20130921-2.html ) > Hi, > This all worked fine, except that using > De

Re: Somewhat desperate

2013-10-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-02 08:16, Joachim Zobel wrote: > Hi. > 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

Re: RFS: plexus-containers/1.0~beta3.0.7-7

2013-09-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-24 12:20, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a sponsor to upload plexus-containers. This update > completes the transition to Guava. I forgot to update the pom installed > in /usr/share/maven-repo in the previous version. It was still > referencing Google Collections. T

Re: netbeans java dependencies Java

2013-09-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-23 08:40, Joachim Zobel wrote: > Hi. > 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 thi

Re: RFS: maven-ant-helper/7.8

2013-09-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-24 11:04, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated maven-ant-helper and I'm looking for a sponsor to upload it. > The Modello Ant Task was loading google-collections.jar programmatically > but there was no explicit dependency on libgoogle-collections-java. The > jar was expected to

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

2013-09-20 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-20 08:06, Joachim Zobel wrote: > 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? >

Re: RFS: jline2 2.11-1

2013-09-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-16 20:13, Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:45:16AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for your interest and sorry for the delay in getting back to you. >> At this time, it seems the package is no longer o

Re: RFS: maven-plugin-tools/2.8-3

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-11 18:19, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated the maven-plugin-tools plugin to removed the unused dependency > on Google Collections and I'm looking for a sponsor to upload it. > > Here is the changelog: > > * debian/control: > - Removed the unused dependency on libgoo

Re: RFS: jnlp-servlet/20120126-1

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-16 10:05, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 16/09/2013 09:40, Niels Thykier a écrit : > >> Thanks for your interest; I do have concern about its B-D-I on >> libservlet2.5-java. That is from tomcat6, which I am pretty sure we are >> trying to get rid of. Is

Re: RFS: plexus-containers and plexus-containers1.5

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-11 21:49, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > Hi, > I updated the plexus-containers and plexus-containers1.5 packages > to replace the dependency on Google Collections by Guava and I'm > looking for a sponsor to upload them. > > Here are the changelogs: > > plexus-containers: > > * R

Re: RFS: jline2 2.11-1

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-08-29 12:52, Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza wrote: > Hello! > > I just finished packaging JLine2 and I'm looking for a sponsor. JLine > is a library that handles console input and is also a dependecy of > Leiningen 2. > > An older version of JLine is already being maintained by this team but

Re: RFS: jnlp-servlet/20120126-1

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-08-18 21:04, Andrew Ross wrote: > Dear Debian Java Team members, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my new package jnlp-servlet. The package > is a dependency of the latest Netbeans platform. Markus Koschany did an > initial review and made some updates - hopefully it's in good shape now.

Re: RFS: libdecentxml-java 1.4-1 (new)

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-10 23:29, Jakub Adam wrote: > Dear java packagers, > > I am looking for a sponsor for package "libdecentxml-java". > > * Package name: libdecentxml-java >Version : 1.4-1 >Upstream Author : Aaron Digulla > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/decentxml/ >

Re: RFS: libnb-javaparser-java (updated package)

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-16 00:08, Andrew Ross wrote: > Dear Debian Java Team members, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my update to the package > libnb-javaparser-java. This is a dependency of the latest version of > Netbeans. > > I've pushed my changes to the libnb-javaparser-java git repository, > althoug

Re: Getting started with netbeans

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-16 08:06, Joachim Zobel wrote: > Hi. > Hi, Thanks for your interest in improving Debian netbeans package. I have CC'ed you for now because I wasn't sure if you had subscribed to the list or not (usually we will assume people are subscribed unless otherwise stated). > To find out how

Re: jarwrapper dependency

2013-07-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-07-15 13:16, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > [...] > Btw, how to get rid of Lintian warning now? > W: epubcheck: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/java/epubcheck.jar > > You don't - there is an outstanding Lintian<->debian-policy bug about it. Either ignore or override the tag. ~Niels -

Re: RFS: httpcomponents-client 4.2.5-2

2013-07-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-07-03 10:00, Jakub Adam wrote: > Dear java packagers, > > I am looking for a sponsor for package "httpcomponents-client". > > * Package name: httpcomponents-client >Version : 4.2.5-2 >Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation > * URL : http://hc.apache

Re: JAVA_HOME in pbuilder

2013-06-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-30 10:25, olivier.sal...@codeless.fr wrote: > Hi, > I have an issue building a package with pbuilder. > > Package builds fine with dpkg-buildpackage, but when ran with pbuilder, > it seems JAVA_HOME is lost. > pbuilder usually involves a sudo and that can clear (most of) the ENV > Th

Re: Aw: RFC on removing libiscwt-java

2013-06-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-28 17:49, "Steffen Möller" wrote: > Hi, > >> Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Juni 2013 um 17:31 Uhr >> Von: "Niels Thykier" >> An: "Debian Java List" >> Cc: moel...@debian.org >> Betreff: RFC on removing libiscwt-java &g

RFC on removing libiscwt-java

2013-06-28 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, I have been considering to remove libiscwt-java from unstable - it has low popcon and has no rdeps left[1]. ~Niels [1] Technically, it is also RC buggy, but I believe there is a fix for that in the Vcs repository. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: RFS: svnclientadapter and svnkit

2013-06-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-26 17:32, Jakub Adam wrote: > Hi Niels, > > On 26.6.2013 16:35, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I don't see any changes in the svnkit git repository that suggests it >> fixes a bug? Will #713784 be fixed by the upload because it is fixed >> upstream?

Re: RFS: eclipse-eclox (new package)

2013-06-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-27 14:37, Graham Inggs wrote: > I've made contact with Guillaume Brocker and he is happy to release Eclox > under a different license. > Which would be better for Debian; GPL + permission to combine with Eclipse, > or EPL? > Of those two, either should do (though it assumes a proper wo

Re: RFS: eclipse-eclox (new package)

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-26 17:12, Graham Inggs wrote: > [...] > Hi Niels > > Thanks for your response. > > I will try to find out more about this. > > To start with though, here are excerpts from section 27 and 32 of the > EPL FAQ [1]: > > * If you have made a copy of existing Eclipse code and made a few mi

Re: RFS: guava-libraries/14.0.1-1

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-06 14:17, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 06/06/2013 06:51, tony mancill a écrit : > >> Have you had a chance to build the reverse build dependencies yet? > > I checked the reverse dependencies, here is the result: > > biojava3-live FAILED (Compilation error related to itext5)

Re: RFS: mina2/2.0.7+dfsg-1

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-14 11:50, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated the mina2 package to the latest upstream release. > > Here is the changelog: > > * New upstream release > * Updated Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes) > * debian/copyright: Updated to comply with the Copyright Format 1.0

Re: RFS: jsch/0.1.50-1

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-14 10:28, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated the jsch package to the latest upstream release. I added a > dependency on jzlib to enable the compression of the SSH sessions. > > Here is the changelog: > > * New upstream release (Closes: #659599) > - Updated the OSGi me

Re: RFS: eclipse-eclox (new package)

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-19 08:37, Graham Inggs wrote: > Dear Java packagers > > I'm looking for someone to review and sponsor the following package, please: > > * Package name : eclipse-eclox > Version : 0.8.0 > Upstream Author : Guillaume Brocker > * URL : http://home.gna.org/eclox/ > * License : GPL-2+

Re: RFS: svnclientadapter and svnkit

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-24 08:49, Jakub Adam wrote: > Hi, > > please upload svnclientadapter and svnkit from experimental into sid, > see wiki[1]. > > This will fix FTBFS RC bug of svnkit[2] and missing build dependency of > eclipse-subclipse[3] > (I wonder how one was able to build and upload Subclipse into

Re: RFS: libjavaewah-java 0.6.12-1 (new dependency of libjgit-java)

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-12 17:42, Jakub Adam wrote: > Dear java packagers, > > I am looking for a sponsor for package "libjavaewah-java". > > * Package name: libjavaewah-java >Version : 0.6.12-1 >Upstream Author : Daniel Lemire (http://lemire.me/en/) > * URL : https://code.go

Re: RFS: uimaj/2.4.0-3 (activation framework dependency removed)

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-30 09:31, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated uimaj to remove the dependency on the Activation Framework. > This API was integrated to Java 6 and is no longer required to build the > package. > > Here is the changelog: > > * Removed the dependency on libgeronimo-activation

Re: RFS: apache-log4j1.2/1.2.17-3 (activation framework removal)

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-16 15:05, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a sponsor to upload my update to the apache-log4j1.2 > package. This update removes the obsolete dependency on the Activation > Framework (libgnujaf-java). > > > http://mentors.debian.net/package/apache-log4j1.2 > > http:/

Re: RFS: libmx4j-java/3.0.2-13 (activation framework removal)

2013-06-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-17 18:23, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a sponsor to upload my update to the libmx4j-java > package. I removed the patch skipping the call to rmic during the build > and checked it still builds with GCJ on kfreebsd. > > Here is the changelog: > > * Removed the

Re: RFS: libhibernate3-java

2013-06-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-24 18:48, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a sponsor to upload libhibernate3-java. The current > package is missing jars in /usr/share/java due to the buggy > maven-debian-helper that was used at this time. This update will fix 6 > FTBFS bugs on reverse dependencies r

Re: RFS: wagon2/2.4-1

2013-06-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-16 01:56, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated the wagon2 package to the latest upstream release. This is a > reverse dependency required to package Leiningen 2.x. > > Here is the changelog: > > * New upstream release > - Removed the patch for CVE-2013-0253 fixed in ver

Re: RFS: commons-jci/1.0-6

2013-06-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-24 00:33, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a sponsor to upload an update to the commons-jci > package. The package is failing to build since the update of ecj in > April. The patch added to fix this issue has been applied upstream. > > Here is the changelog: > > *

RFH/RFA: javatools (javahelper)

2013-06-23 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, Matthew and I had a short IRC chat yesterday and we concluded that neither of us have given javatools (javahelper) the time and attention it deserves. If you have been waiting for an excuse to work on javatools/javahelper, well, here it is. :) ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ja

Re: On removing libgoogle-collections-java from Debian (superseeded by libguava-java)

2013-06-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-12 13:50, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 12/06/2013 13:03, Niels Thykier a écrit : > >> According to upstream's homepage[1], google-collections has been >> replaced by guava[2]. Allegedly, guava should be backwards compatiable >> with google-collections[1]. &

On removing libgoogle-collections-java from Debian (superseeded by libguava-java)

2013-06-12 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, According to upstream's homepage[1], google-collections has been replaced by guava[2]. Allegedly, guava should be backwards compatiable with google-collections[1]. We only have a handful of packages[3] left still depending on libgoogle-collections-java and I intend to file bugs for these s

Re: upload of java-common 0.49

2013-05-22 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-22 17:31, tony mancill wrote: > [...] > > Hi Niels, > > I appreciate your feedback. I guess Java7 should be considered a > "transition" and thus should go through the Release Team. > At least that is what I suspect. > IMO, I don't think we need 100% success on the rebuild - i.e. I'

Re: upload of java-common 0.49

2013-05-22 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-22 06:52, tony mancill wrote: > Dear Debian Java List, > > In an attempt to advance the use of openjdk7 for jessie, I have uploaded > java-common 0.49 (essentially the same 0.48 package that was in > experimental, but now targeting unstable) to the DELAYED/3 queue. > > The delay is bec

Re: default-jdk versionned depends ? Was: Java Activation Framework removal

2013-05-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-17 22:31, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: > Hi Emmanuel, > > 2013/5/16 Emmanuel Bourg > >> Hi all, >> >> There are three packages implementing the Java Activation Framework in >> Debian. They could be removed now that Java 6 and upward integrate the >> most recent version of JAF. >> > > E

Re: Removal of libgeronimo-activation-1.1-spec-java?

2013-04-29 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-29 12:39, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > The Activation Framework is now part of Java 6 and I would suggest to > remove the Geronimo implementation currently packaged as > libgeronimo-activation-1.1-spec-java. > > The reverse dependencies for this packages are: > > libuima-adap

Re: libcommons-jexl2-java

2013-04-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-26 13:20, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 26/04/2013 12:47, Olivier Sallou a écrit : > >> You may have missed the debian/libcommons-jexl2-java.classpath > > Indeed, thank you. It works now. > > Do we want absolute or relative references? > > Class-Path: commons-logging.jar > > or >

Re: libcommons-jexl2-java

2013-04-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-26 11:58, Olivier Sallou wrote: > I have the latest version on SVN for debian dir. > > Olivier Which version of the maven helpers are you using? There was a bug in one of the maven helpers where it didn't deploy jars to /usr/share/java by default for lib*-java packages (which may be r

Auto-generating versioned dependencies for Java packages (via maven/java helpers)

2013-04-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, As the topic suggests I want to talk about improving the situation on auto-generating versioned dependencies via our helper tools (e.g. javahelper and maven-*-helper). At the moment, javahelper doesn't add versioned dependencies, which is actually really bad. I am not sure what the situation

Re: RFS: antlr/2.7.7+dfsg-5 (watch file and copyright update for unstable)

2013-04-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-25 12:13, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated the venerable antlr package to fix the watch file as well as > minor Lintian warnings on the copyright file. I guess it's safe enough > to target unstable. > > Here is the changelog: > > * Updated the watch file (contributed by

Re: xslthl uploaded to mentors.debian.net

2013-04-22 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-23 07:46, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > Hello, > > It's been almost two weeks of silence since I sent request to join at > alioth.d.o. > Any idea how long does it usually take? > > > [...] Hi, >From the looks of it, you are already a member. The problem (from the admin side) is that aliot

Re: Lintian check for missing debug symbols in class files

2013-04-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-15 16:31, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > As I worked on the ehcache package I noticed that the jar produced > didn't contain the debug symbols. That's the kind of mistake that could > be easily caught by Lintian. > > Has anyone considered adding this rule to Lintian? > > Emmanuel

Re: cannot find symbol symbol : constructor JSONTokener(java.io.Reader)

2013-04-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-12 16:50, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Does anyone knows why I would be getting: > > [javac] > /home/mathieu/debian/collab/deb-maint/jheliosviewer/trunk/jhelioviewer-2.2.1/src/jhv/src/org/helioviewer/jhv/io/DataSources.java:190: > cannot find symbol > [javac] symbol : constructo

Re: where is org/json/JSONObject ?

2013-04-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-12 15:49, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Does anyone know where is the json java package ? > > All I could find is: > > http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=rowToJSONArray > > But the json package seems incomplete: > > cannot find symbol > [javac] symbol : class XML > [javac] l

Re: Deprecation of *-gcj packages

2013-04-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-12 13:41, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Hello, > Hey, > Maybe I am missing a point but I have the feeling that the -gcj packages > are now a bit useless. > gcj does not seem a very active project [1] and my perception is that > not many people are using gcj packages instead of the "java pa

Re: JUnit 4 and runtime dependencies

2013-04-11 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-11 14:59, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm updating the package for JUnit4 and I noticed that the binary > package 'junit4' depends on default-jre-headless or > java5-runtime-headless. Considering that this is a library, should I > remove this dependency? > > Emmanuel Bourg > It i

Re: RFS: swing-layout

2013-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-07 17:43, Andrew Ross wrote: > Dear Debian Java Team members, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my update to the package swing-layout. > I've updated the packaging to install maven metadata, as well as update > the packaging to use javahelper. I'm targeting experimental for now. > > H

Re: RFA of some of Java packages

2013-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-07 17:11, Andrew Ross wrote: > On 07/04/13 15:35, Niels Thykier wrote: >> swing-layout >> - no active maintainer left >> >> ~Niels >> > > I'll happily take this one, and will prepare an upload shortly. I was > planning to add maven poms

RFA of some of Java packages

2013-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, Lately I have not had as much time for Debian Java as I should. Accordingly the following packages are now up for grabs for anyone, who wants to maintain them in the pkg-java team. asm3 - possible one active maintainer remaining - asm, asm2 and asm3 should probably be replaced by asm4 jarj

Re: RFS: avalon-framework/4.2.0-9 (watch file fix for unstable)

2013-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-04-02 16:06, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi, > > I made a quick fix of the avalon-framework package, the watch file was > no longer valid. There were also other minor things to fix. > > Here is the changelog: > > * Removed Michael Koch from the uploaders list (Closes: #653991) > * Bumped S

Re: I'd like to introduce myself

2013-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-21 15:32, tony mancill wrote: > On 02/19/2013 12:58 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >> [...] >>> For (2), I see benefit in java-package generating a Provides line that >>> is similar to what is generated by the openjdk-6 and openjdk-7 packages. >> >> I'll try to do that, or at least add java-r

Re: RFS: libitext-java/2.1.7-5 (for experimental)

2013-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-03-30 00:18, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > Following the update of Bouncy Castle here is the necessary update of > iText 2.x. The recent updates of Bouncy Castle broke the binary > compatibility and the old version of iText was affected (Bug #687694). I > patched it to compile agains

Re: Cannot build Commons Configuration

2013-03-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-03-19 15:22, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to update the Commons Configuration but the build fails and I > don't understand why. Maven complains about a missing dependency > (commons-jexl) but libcommons-jexl-java is already installed. Did I miss > something? > > Emmanuel Bou

Re: Please add me to the project

2013-03-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-03-16 11:25, d...@zorglub.s.bawue.de wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/03/13 18:56, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: >> On 10/03/2013 16:44, Andreas Altaïr Redmer wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> following the steps on >>> >>> http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html#rules >>> >>> I ask to be added to the pr

Re: RFS: eclipse-cdt 8.1.2-1 (new upstream for experimental)

2013-03-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-03-15 19:20, Jakub Adam wrote: > Dear java packagers, > > [...] > > Package source can be accessed at pkg-java git repository: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/eclipse-cdt.git > > This is a new bugfixing release from upstream, not suitable for Wheezy, > so please upload into experi

Re: Package libjide-oss-java

2013-03-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-03-16 09:17, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Markus, > Hi, Thanks for your interest in packaging Java libraries and applications for Debian. > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 05:50:38PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: >> Although i'm willing to maintain the package myself, i figured a java >> library w

Re: Assorted questions on java, eclipse packaging

2013-02-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-18 10:53, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-02-18 10:24, Thomas Koch wrote: >> Hi, >> > > Hi, > >> I've looked into the eclipse-wtp package, learned about the jh_* helpers for >> eclipse and tried to apply them to the wtp-jsf plugin. Some quest

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-18 13:08, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > [...] >> OpenJDK6 therefore should be considered obsolete when Wheezy is released. > > I wouldn't use the word 'obsolete' so long as there are packages that > *can* use it... I'd call it 'maintenance only'. > > > Before deciding the post-wheezy f

Re: Assorted questions on java, eclipse packaging

2013-02-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-18 10:24, Thomas Koch wrote: > Hi, > Hi, > I've looked into the eclipse-wtp package, learned about the jh_* helpers for > eclipse and tried to apply them to the wtp-jsf plugin. Some questions: > > - The JST project comes in an SDK and non SDK version. Which one should I > package?

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-18 08:23, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > Niels Thykier: >>> - Updating to openjdk-7 in wheezy would not solve any issues from my >>>point of view, and it would need some porting of packages to 7, and >>>probably removing some packages which are not ye

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-17 23:04, Matthias Klose wrote: > There is a bug report open for openjdk-6 in wheezy (#675495) and squeeze > didn't > see any security updates for several months. To summarize, no party involved > is > capable or willing to provide security updates based on backports of single > patch

Re: RFS: libws-commons-util-java 1.0.1-8 (for experimental)

2013-02-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-01-25 19:35, Jakub Adam wrote: > Dear java packagers, > > I am looking for a sponsor for package "libws-commons-util-java". > > * Package name: libws-commons-util-java >Version : 1.0.1-8 >Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation > * URL : http://apach

Re: RFS: libgnumail-java 1.1.2-8 [uploaded]

2013-02-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-01-25 19:35, Jakub Adam wrote: > Dear java packagers, > > I am looking for a sponsor for package "libgnumail-java". > > * Package name: libgnumail-java >Version : 1.1.2-8 >Upstream Author : Andrew Selkirk, Nic Ferrier, Chris Burdess > * URL : http://savan

Bug#699757: Java 6 support ending, Java 7 not in squeeze

2013-02-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-04 18:27, Christian Bernardt wrote: > Package: default-jdk > Version: 1.6-40 > Debian squeeze does provide openjdk-6-jdk as part of its default-jdk package. > Here it can be seen that > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html Java 6 end of support > will be end of this

Re: Q: target version (1.4, 1.5 or 1.6) for java-bytecode-format backward compatibility

2012-12-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-12-14 15:41, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > Hi, Moving this to debian-java@l.d.o. > About "incompatible-java-bytecode-format with OpenJDK 7 as default-jdk" > issue, > I wonder which version should be specified to keep backward compatibility. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?f

Re: RFS: eclipse-wtp 3.4.1-1 (new package, not for wheezy)

2012-12-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-10 14:22, Jakub Adam wrote: > Dear java packagers, > > I am looking for a sponsor for package "eclipse-wtp". > > * Package name: eclipse-wtp >Version : 3.4.1-1 >Upstream Author : Eclipse Web Tools Platform team > * URL : http://www.eclipse.org/webtools

Re: Bug#675495: downgrading the severity of #675495 (openjdk-6 in wheezy)

2012-11-29 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-28 17:20, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 17:43:57 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > >> OpenJDK Security support has always been a nightmare for the security >> team because there was no support from the maintainers. Security support >> s primarily the responsibility o

Re: sources jars for gwt projects (e.g. gerrit)

2012-10-31 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-31 13:30, Thomas Koch wrote: > Hi, > > gwt (google web toolkit) needs the sources jar of all external jar files it > should compile to javascript. Currently there's not a single package shipping > sources jars and the Maven Source Plugin isn't even packaged. > Eclipse do (did?) have

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