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. 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.