On 08/29/2014 08:22 AM, Olivier Sallou wrote: > On 08/29/2014 02:38 AM, tony mancill wrote: >> On 08/28/2014 07:01 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> when checking my Maintainer dashboard dashboard I realised that the >>> watch file of netlib-java and libmtj-java became disfunctional and when >>> tracking down the issue I noticed that both projects moved from SF to >>> Github. While I updated the URLs in SVN accordingly I noticed that the >>> Build system has changed as well which just crosses my (low) level of >>> Java competence (again). >>> >>> Since both packages are definitely not really in the field of Debian Med >>> but just preconditions for some biological package (beast) I wonder >>> whether this might be the right point in time to move the package to >>> Debian Java. I'd volunteer to inject the package into Debian Java Git >>> but in turn I would need some help (starting with netlib-java). I have >>> the feeling that the amount of work for a skilled Java packager is low >>> (but I really would not regard myself as such a person). >>> >>> BTW, the packages are hanging around in contrib since netlib depends >>> from f2j (at least the current version). I'll send a separate mail to >>> f2j authors to try (again) to convince them to use a DFSG free license. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Andreas. >>> >> Hello Andreas, >> >> If you're willing to migrate these to the pkg-java repo, I'll work on >> updating them and uploading them as Java Team packages. >> >> Also, I've been meaning to send you a mail regarding libsnappy-java, >> since we have an RC bug there.
I have sent a patch to fix the bug on loading native library. However this raises an other issue, it seems that Java lib is not matching native lib on methods. I have put details in the bug. Olivier >> The last commit makes it appear that you >> were considering moving it debian-med in 2012. Is that still the case? > We have a libsnappy-java version available in DebianMed [0], but a > specific release (certainly due to a package which needed this specific > release and upstream broke its API). > I do not know if we need to manage snappy by itself in DebianMed repo as > it has nothing related to bio/med but is only a dependency. > > [0] https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/snappy1.0.3-java.html > > Olivier >> Cheers, >> tony >> -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.