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
