Re: Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-07 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:16:40PM +0200, olivier sallou wrote: dh-make-perl indeed for Perl CPAN packages. dh-make for base packages... gem2deb for Ruby packages ... -- Antonio Terceiro terce...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
+++ Jonathan Dowland [2013-04-05 10:09 +0100]: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 11:07:31AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: This java code should be replaces with something in perl/python/non-JVM. Why? [Wookey] Because it's an entirely unnecessary circular build-dependency. java is not part of

Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-05 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, debian-java has the tool mh_make that generates debian packages from maven projects. There's some java code in there that produces debian/* files: rules, copyright, watch, control, orig-tar.sh, doc-base.api, doc.install and of course source/format and compat. This java code should be

Re: Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 11:07:31AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: This java code should be replaces with something in perl/python/non-JVM. Why? Is there already some logic/templates in Debian that I could build on? dh-make-perl perhaps? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-05 Thread olivier sallou
dh-make-perl indeed for Perl CPAN packages. dh-make for base packages... Olivier 2013/4/5 Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro Hi, debian-java has the tool mh_make that generates debian packages from maven projects. There's some java code in there that produces debian/* files: rules, copyright,

Re: Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-05 Thread Wookey
+++ Jonathan Dowland [2013-04-05 10:09 +0100]: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 11:07:31AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: This java code should be replaces with something in perl/python/non-JVM. Why? Because it's an entirely unnecessary circular build-dependency. java is not part of build-essential and

Re: Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-05 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Wookey (2013-04-05 12:17:42) Because it's an entirely unnecessary circular build-dependency. java is not part of build-essential and this doesn't seem like a good reason for making it so. mh_make is part of the package maven-debian-helper (Thomas: I cant find the package

Re: Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 05.04.2013 12:45, Johannes Schauer wrote: (Thomas: I cant find the package debian-java you were talking about) That's because it's a group of people, not a package... Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-05 Thread Thomas Koch
Jonathan Dowland: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 11:07:31AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: This java code should be replaces with something in perl/python/non-JVM. Why? Wookeys response (circular build-dependency) is not the reason here. We have two packages, maven-repo-helper with minimal dependency