Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

2016-10-05 Thread Ioan Eugen Stan
Hi, If your product is targeting Debian as a distribution platform than it might be worth it to do the normal (full) debian packaging and have your package in the official distribution. If you just need to install the app to use it develop/test it locally and never plan to distributed as an offic

Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

2016-10-05 Thread David Myers
@Thorsten. OK I didn't realise there was 'more' to the .deb and .dsc stuff... I'm sure I mentioned that I'm a newbie to packaging 😉 (scratches head). @Emmanueal The team already has a gradle.build for windows and OSX, so I don't need to worry about those. The truth is that the gradle.build is a

Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

2016-10-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > I'd suggest that you get a look at jdeb [1] too, you may find this path > easier. It allows you to generate a .deb file directly from the project But do note that a .deb file is *not* a Debian package, merely a binary in a format convenient to install o

Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

2016-10-05 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 5/10/2016 à 03:25, David Myers a écrit : > @Markus and @Wookey. > > Thanks for the pointers. I knew that there would be some good places too > look just wasn't sure I was finding the correct / most appropriate things. > > Thanks again... > > I'll keep in touch. > > David Hi David, I'd sugg

Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

2016-10-04 Thread David Myers
@Markus and @Wookey. Thanks for the pointers. I knew that there would be some good places too look just wasn't sure I was finding the correct / most appropriate things. Thanks again... I'll keep in touch. David On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Markus Koschany wrote: > [Dropping debian-devel f

Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

2016-10-04 Thread Markus Koschany
[Dropping debian-devel from CC. debian-java is the right place to ask these questions] On 04.10.2016 06:23, David Myers wrote: [...] > So my initial questions are : > > Is there a preference for which plugin should be used for gradle builds > within the debian project ? We recommend to use gradl

Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list

2016-10-04 Thread Wookey
On 2016-10-04 08:23 +0400, David Myers wrote: > Hello all. Welcome, more people helping out is good. > I have just taken on a task of creating a deb package for an open source Java > based project (runs in Tomcat or other embeded container). I can't answer most of your questions, but people at