Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread David Parsons
Thanks Timo, Gert, Martin and Chris. I had indeed misunderstood a few things. I now have a "lintian clean" package and will look further into the groups you've pointed me to Cheers David Le 05/06/2013 14:19, Chris Knadle a écrit : On Wednesday, June 05, 2013 05:01:33, David Parsons wrote: .

Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, June 05, 2013 05:01:33, David Parsons wrote: ... > I've been working on packaging something (a scientific tool for RNA > sequence analysis) that has never been packaged neither in source nor > binary. Most of the material I could find on getting involved in > packaging for Debian rela

Re: [Help] Trying to upgrade mkgmap but failed with Java problem

2013-06-05 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 05/06/2013 13:33, Andreas Tille a écrit : > It seems maven is somehow involved even if at least to my limited > knowledge this would use ratherpm.xml rather than build.xml. It > seems I need to edit build.xml to tell ant to use local JAR files > rather than trying to download anything. But wh

Re: [Help] Trying to upgrade mkgmap but failed with Java problem

2013-06-05 Thread Andreas Tille
[for debian-java readers: the original mail explaining the problem is attached below] Hi Emmanuel, On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 12:15:55PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > The build doesn't compile the code, so you can't run the > uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.main.Main class. You probably want to run the Ant

Bug#711191: RFS: mediawiki2latex/6.4-1

2013-06-05 Thread Dirk Hünniger
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mediawiki2latex" * Package name: mediawiki2latex Version : 6.4-1 Upstream Author : Dirk Huenniger * URL : http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Hu

Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
First of all, I'm very new here, my questions have probably already been answered (although I didn't find these answers...), please excuse me if it is so. I've been working on packaging something (a scientific tool for RNA sequence analysis) that has never been packaged You may be intereste

Re: [Help] Trying to upgrade mkgmap but failed with Java problem

2013-06-05 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi Andreas, The build doesn't compile the code, so you can't run the uk.me.parabola.mkgmap.main.Main class. You probably want to run the Ant dist target to build the project instead of using the makefile, see the comment in ./Makefile: # This is NOT used to build mkgmap. To build use ant. E

Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread Gert Wollny
Hello, > Ultimately, when I manage to have a clean package, I will be looking for > a sponsor. Would anyone here be interested in RNA-seq analysis and > willing to help me ? > I can not sponsor, and I have no idea about RNA sequencers et al, but your package might fit into the "Next generation

[Help] Trying to upgrade mkgmap but failed with Java problem

2013-06-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I updated the packaging of mkgmap in SVN svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/mkgmap/trunk to recent packaging standards and latest upstream version. Unfortunately the build failed with /usr/bin/time --format 'Real: %E, %S+%U' java -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Xmx700m -cp build/class

Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, David Parsons writes: > My first question is: Is it mandatory to provide a source package to > distribute a binary one or is a tar.gz archive of the sources enough ? A source package is required so that the binary packages can be automatically generated for different architectures. The sour

Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread David Parsons
Hi, First of all, I'm very new here, my questions have probably already been answered (although I didn't find these answers...), please excuse me if it is so. I've been working on packaging something (a scientific tool for RNA sequence analysis) that has never been packaged neither in source