On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Jan Dittberner wrote: > Hello, > > recently I built a new package (xlwt) depending on a file in antlr (2.x > series). When I started work on xlwt one of the Python module team > members mentioned in IRC that antlr is not in a good shape too. I looked > at antlr during the last days and I have the feeling that the package > could really need some care. > > I'm writing to all of you because I want to avoid starting work that may > already be in progress. The package page at [1] tells me that there is > an uploaded version by Asheesh Laroia at the mentors.debian.net > repository [2]. I looked at it and saw that the package fixes the RC bug > but doesn't improve it any further.
That'd be awesome to fix up antlr. I only looked at the RC bug, but I'm very confused as to why the Debian Java team didn't answer my repeated emails about it. > I'd like to help with the package with reviewing patches fixing lintian stuff > and looking at the BTS (and hopefully find solutions for bugs). I'm in NM but > maintain some other packages [3] for a while so I have some experience with > packaging. Maybe my Java knowledge will be of help too (antlr spits a lot of > deprecation warnings that should IMHO be reported/fixed in antlr upstream). > > [3] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=...@dittberner.info Awesome. > Should I start working on the package? I could use svn if anybody could > add me to the pkg-java team on alioth (my alioth account is > jandd-guest). Before starting new work I think the diff between svn > trunk and the current uploaded version of antlr has to be committed to > svn though. > > I'm CCing antlr Uploaders and Matthias Klose who uploaded the latest > antlr version because I don't know wheter you're members of the team's > list. It's not my package, and I'm not in the Java team, but someone should do it, and no one else, so it should probably be you! Also, apparently debian-java is for humans and pkg-java-maintainers is for commit mail. I had no idea about this until I just read an email p-j-m. (Maybe that explains why no one answered my queries about antlr before.) -- Asheesh. -- Write yourself a threatening letter and pen a defiant reply. _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers