Re: Bug#736123: ITP: sbbi-upnplib -- Java library for universal plug and play (upnp)

2014-01-23 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Jonathan Yu wrote: > Does apt-get source expect the source package name, or will it also > work with binary package names? If I do "apt-get source libupnp-java", > will it download the sbbi-upnplib package? If so, then this seems to > be an especially trivial poin

Re: Bug#736123: ITP: sbbi-upnplib -- Java library for universal plug and play (upnp)

2014-01-19 Thread Scott Howard
must be named libXXX[version]-java (without > the brackets)" [0] > > Might you consider renaming this package to make it more easily discoverable? > > Cheers, > > Jonathan > > [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/x104.html > > On Su

Re: Frustration with trying to build Debian packages from Maven-based sources

2013-03-17 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 17/03/2013 16:47, Hilko Bengen a écrit : > >> I don't mean to offend anyone here nor belittle hard work that has gone >> into the mentioned tools, but can't we do better than this? > > What about leveraging the Maven infrastructure and do

Re: java6-runtime on Ubuntu?

2012-01-09 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Olivier Sallou wrote: > Hi, > I have a short question regarding jdk7 > I have a package that depends on default-jdk. > > An Ubuntu user asks me to depend (also) on jdk7. > Though this can easilly be done by adding a new OR condition to the > dependencies (default-j

Re: Join the team

2011-11-17 Thread Scott Howard
Hi Bertrand, On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Bertrand Marc wrote: > Dear Debian java maintainers, > > I am a learning Debian packager [1] (not member of the project yet), > and I'd like to work on a couple of packages using java. I am > currently the owner of one ITP bug [2], working on packagin

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Ubuntu?

2011-03-11 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:06:14AM +0100, Stefane Fermigier wrote: >> Here are some thoughts and questions about how to package a Java EE >> application so that it can be accepted in partner. >> >> We have packages that have been create

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

2011-02-17 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > The problem I had is that beast-mcmc contains more than one executables > with more than one JAR files.  Some executables are using a common JAR > file with different main classes.  As far as I have seen this case > is not covered by the tuto

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

2011-02-16 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > with debian/figtree.manifest which was determining the CLASSPATH for the > executable jar.  I considered this way as quite useful and would like to > try it for beast-mcmc as well (even if it is no real request - any other > way would be welc

Re: Help wanted in Java library packaging (JEBL2)

2011-02-14 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > $ figtree > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > jam/framework/MultiDocApplication >        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) >        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634) >  

Re: Help wanted in Java library packaging (JEBL2)

2011-02-13 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I did so and this has solved 4 out of 10 errors.  The remaining ones are > concerning EMF, SVG and SWF (see build log at the URL above). I tried to > fix it in an analogue manner as for PS and PDF ... but failed.  I gazed > for hours on the b

Re: Help wanted in Java library packaging (JEBL2)

2011-02-13 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 09:54:58AM -0500, Scott Howard wrote: >> It looks like you got it working, and in a sane way - that's all that >> matters! >> >> > Now to my remaining problem:  If you look at the

Re: Help wanted in Java library packaging (JEBL2)

2011-02-13 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > When using > >        dh --with javahelper > > jh_linkjars seems to be called automatically (but I probably need to > provide an input file for this.  However if this does not work with > java:Depends I'm not in favour of this method anyway.

Re: Help wanted in Java library packaging (JEBL2)

2011-02-12 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Scott Howard wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I uploaded two source packages to >> >>   http://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/figtree-help-wanted/ >> >> One is the just

Re: Help wanted in Java library packaging (JEBL2)

2011-02-12 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I uploaded two source packages to > >   http://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/figtree-help-wanted/ > > One is the just ITPed (#613080) and the other one is FigTree which is > actually my target package.  The originial tarball conta

Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Scott Howard
This is an interesting problem, there are great open source Java projects out there that, but no fault of their own, are using libraries from a repo that Debian can't access (no copyright notice and no license makes it a non-starter). Add the library versioning/API breakage potential on top of that

Java application depending on binary dependent packages

2011-01-06 Thread Scott Howard
Hello Java team, Looking at bug #609152 [1]: There is a Java application which depends on a JNI library which is only built on a subset of architectures. A bug has been filed against the java package because it is un-installable on the architectures that the JNI library does not exist (since it c

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-18 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > not good. The license only allows unmodified distribution, plus it only > "helps" when calling the "java" binary, not when starting the VM in other > ways. > >  Matthias If that's the way it is, then that's it. If the license only allows u

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-18 Thread Scott Howard
didn't expect it to get into squeeze/ubuntu and think it needs testing before making into a stable release. I don't know if you saw this: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Scott Howard wrote: >>> I also don'

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-17 Thread Scott Howard
tags 382686 patch thanks On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Scott Howard wrote: > I also don't > know if a user setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH on their own overwrites our > java.library.path > Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH appends java.library.path, but passing -Djava.library.path t

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-13 Thread Scott Howard
Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 à 09:51 -0500, Scott Howard a écrit : > I would to revisit this bug. I agree with the debian policy decision > to keep compiled binaries in /usr/lib/jni/, but I'm getting frequent > bug reports and emails form users of a library I maintain telling me >

Re: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-11-12 Thread Scott Howard
affects 382686 sun-java6-jre thanks I would to revisit this bug. I agree with the debian policy decision to keep compiled binaries in /usr/lib/jni/, but I'm getting frequent bug reports and emails form users of a library I maintain telling me that I installed the library to the wrong location [1-8

Re: Request for reviewing my first java package

2010-11-08 Thread Scott Howard
For the benefit of the Java team, I copied the original email below: "Hello pkg-java team, I'm in the process of packaging a Java library (JXGrabKey [1]) and will soon upload it to unstable. But since this is my very first Java package I'd prefer if it could first have some reviewing from a regul

/usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path, sun java 5 and 6

2010-09-07 Thread Scott Howard
Hello debian java maintainers, The Java policy says [1]: "If a virtual machine supports native code, it must include the directory /usr/lib/jni in its search path for these dynamic libraries." openjdk6 was patched to allow looking for JNI libraries in /usr/lib/jni in bug 517338 [2], and was fixed

RFS: libjbcrypt-java (updated package)

2010-06-25 Thread Scott Howard
Hello, * Team upload. * Fixed a FTBFS from a call to depricated jh_libs (Closes: #584352) Thanks to Niels Thykier * Corrected links to Vcs fields in debian/control * Removed dependency on topgit and quilt (not necessary when using source 3.0 (quilt) format) * Build depend on def

Re: RFS: icu4j-4.2

2010-06-22 Thread Scott Howard
Hi Niels, This is for my own education, but could you explain the following for me: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >  * Removed dependencies on JREs - per the Java Policy this is no >    longer required. Do we not need to depend on default-jre-headless for libraries? Or i

Re: RFS: rxtx (updated package: team adoption, bug fixes, lintian cleaning, new upstream release)

2010-06-03 Thread Scott Howard
Torsten's changes have all been applied [1] and added a doc-base file to quiet lintian: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/rxtx.git package uploaded again to: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rxtx - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contri

Re: RFS: rxtx (updated package: team adoption, bug fixes, lintian cleaning, new upstream release)

2010-06-03 Thread Scott Howard
[on list reply] Thanks Torsten, >> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/rxtx.git > you have checked in a .pc directory. Please clean up the repo. I actually did that intentionally, I saw many people saying that packages with source 3.0 (quilt) format should be stored with patches applied (different

Re: RFS: rxtx (updated package: team adoption, bug fixes, lintian cleaning, new upstream release)

2010-06-02 Thread Scott Howard
[I accidentally only replied to Torsten, this is a copy of my reply to be put on list] On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Torsten Werner wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Scott Howard wrote: >> I applied for the java packaging team on alioth, but haven't been >> approve

Re: RFS: rxtx (updated package: team adoption, bug fixes, lintian cleaning, new upstream release)

2010-06-02 Thread Scott Howard
> please use either svn or git to maintain the package. Feel free to ask > if you need help. Do not forget to add the Vcs headers to > debian/control. Thanks Torsten, I applied for the java packaging team on alioth, but haven't been approved yet (showard-guest). I prefer git. Would you be able to

RFS: rxtx (updated package: team adoption, bug fixes, lintian cleaning, new upstream release)

2010-06-01 Thread Scott Howard
an.net/debian/pool/main/r/rxtx/rxtx_2.2pre2-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Scott Howard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi