On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 21:41 -0700, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > It looks like Clojure 1.1.0 and the corresponding version of contrib > were packaged for Debian. Is the fellow who packaged that still > around? Are there any plans to package 1.2.1 and contrib 1.2.0?
Great to see some interest for Debian in the Clojure community. The Clojure
packages are maintained by the pkg-java-maintainers team [0] and in particular
by Peter Collingbourne and I agree that it would be nice to have 1.2.1/1.2.0
packaged in Debian.
The best way to speed this up is probably to either:
* File a wishlist bug against clojure and clojure-contrib that informs the
maintainer that a new version is available. Apparently the watch file is
not working as the QA page [1] is not referring to the new version in
the "todo" list.
Unfortunately the bug filed after the 1.2.0 release [2] did not receive
any
attention and it is unclear if anybody is actually working on this.
* Upgrade clojure/clojure-contrib to the newer upstream versions and ask a
member of the pkg-java team or Peter to sponsor it.
All that being said, I would love to see more contributers to Clojure
packaging in Debian and it might be a good idea to form a pkg-clojure team
that collaboratively packages Clojure related software. It might be a good
idea to start a discussion on the pkg-java mailing list about this.
I would be willing to help with this packaging and am interested in helping
with the leiningen packaging, which brings us to:
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 16:36 -0700, Phil Hagelberg wrote:
> No, I am working on a Leiningen package and want an up-to-date .deb on
> which to depend.
That is great! The ITP for leiningen [3] is currently owned by Ramakrishnan
Muthukrishnan and I am not sure how far he got with his packaging so far. What
are the major problems you face right now and how far have you come?
Leiningen is a slightly more complicated package and it would probably be a
good idea to build several distinct binary packages from the source package.
(such as leiningen-bin, libclojure-leiningen, leiningen-el (emacs), ...). If
there is anything I can do to help (even if it is just coming up with a
watchfile based on [4]) just let me know.
[0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clojure.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593790
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566963
[4] http://githubredir.debian.net/
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