Hi Charles, I had a look into Artemis[1] because this might be used in our institute. The situation of this package is similar to the recently packaged alien_hunter: It contains a lot of Jar files without source. In alien_hunter this was easy to solve: The jars were all available for Debian so I stripped these from the tarball, added apropriate dependencies and changed the CLASSPATH variable in the calling procedure.
When trying the same strategy in Artemis I realised that in this case things are not that simple because not all jar files that used in artemis are available in Debian. To take one specific example: There is a file jemAlign.jar which for instance in turn includes a jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar which on the other hand is there as seperate file next to jemAlign.jar in the downloadable tarball. I admit this whole Jar-jungle is a bit confusing to me. But furthermore in jemAlign.jar is a directory called emboss which leaded me to the Emboss project which is actually packaged and I hoped for JEmboss to be my friend. Unfortunately it is not that easy because the jemboss package does not seem to contain the wanted jar file. But I noticed - and that's the reason why I added jemboss to the subject - an outdated instance of jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar and log4j-1.2.8.jar inside the jemboss package. We have libregexp-java: /usr/share/maven-repo/jakarta-regexp/jakarta-regexp/1.5/jakarta-regexp-1.5.jar and liblog4j1.2-java: /usr/share/java/log4j-1.2-1.2.15.jar liblog4j1.2-java: /usr/share/java/log4j-1.2.jar but I noticed that jemboss is not the only package which contains copies of log4j-*.jar. That's a bit confusing and I wonder what might be the best idea to sort this out. I would also be very happy for a hint where I might find the source for jemAlign.jar before I ask upstream which most probably will answer: It's everything in our downloadable tarball, just use this. I just got this kind of answer in two different Java based projects without beeing able to make them understand that we need the real source to let ftpmaster accept a new package. Any hint is welcome Andreas. [1] http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/ -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org