On 7/28/21 7:07 PM, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/28/21 1:57 PM, Peymaneh Nejad wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>>> There is already an antlr4 in the archive[1]
>>>> IMHO, these bindings should be built in the same source itself as a 
>>>> separate binary package
>>>>
>>>> I think packaging it separately goes orthogonal to the effort if the 
>>>> maintainer decides to package the bindings someday
>>>> If the maintainer agrees that bindings should be separate source package, 
>>>> your method would be fine.
>>>>
>>>> But I think contacting the maintainer first should be the bare minimum 
>>>> requirement here.
>>>> I think just send in a mail to the -java mailing list
>>>> and CC the maintainer to ask for opinions
>>
>> It's maintainer would like to keep the sources seperate:
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2021/07/msg00014.html
> 
> Hmm, there's been discussion about including it in the original source too 
> which is opposite to what ebourg says,
> but I think we'll go with what ebourg suggests.
> 
> In the source, IMO .appveyor, .github, .travis, .gitignore pom.xml .... et al 
> files are also pretty much useless for go package, atleast for us as 
> downstream - can you filter these too?

Other than this, please add in a d/README.Source explaining what parts you 
filtered out and your reasoning for doing the same
IMO, we don't need to add in a repack suffix here because that would be 
needless work, so adding a source readme should suffice

Nilesh
 

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