[Forwarded due to not hitting "Reply to all"] Hi Damien, thanks for your time.
> You should try to contact directly Debian Java Team on [email protected] for > Java sponsoring. Ah, thanks, I will! > Why is your package not based on initial work done by Jan-Pascal van Best ? > svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-java/trunk/lucene3 My first reason was that when I saw that Jan-Pascal had done some packaging work I went to see what he had done - and the code was gone! I now know that this was actually because of a problem with anonscm.debian.org/viewvc, but it meant that I started my own work assuming that Jan-Pascal had removed his when he dropped his ITP. Secondly, when I did find Jan-Pascal's work I noticed that he was packaging upstream version 3.0.2 (from June 2010) while I had been working on version 3.3.0 (from July 2011). Most of the work needed redoing as there have been a lot of changes upstream in between. I have done a thorough examination of Jan-Pascal's packaging, however, and noted anything that my package is missing. There wasn't a lot but what there was no longer cleanly applies so they have become TODO items. Most of the rest is simply not relevant any more. Finally, I admit, there is a certain amount of personal taste involved. Jan-Pascal's solution is quite a complicated CDBS affair that doesn't reflect current policy because it is a direct increment of a package that has been maintained for 6 years, while my own is a pretty simple pure debhelper package that is quite clean. A new maintainer of a new package seems like the perfect opportunity to bring the package up to date. Phew, I'm not sure any one expected such a long answer, even me :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cacv6rztsdsdziiehto4xkn95u8bbpvxto9y-a4mzsp4kbg1...@mail.gmail.com
