Re: Debian/Ubuntu Java merge status

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:47:36PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Montag, den 05.03.2007, 22:36 +0100 schrieb Michael Koch: > > > Lucus Nussbaum was so kind to setup a cronjob to generate a comparison > > between Debian und Ubuntu to make it easier for us to track differences. > > Its generated

Re: Debian/Ubuntu Java merge status

2007-03-05 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 05.03.2007, 22:47 +0100 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > Am Montag, den 05.03.2007, 22:36 +0100 schrieb Michael Koch: > > > Lucus Nussbaum was so kind to setup a cronjob to generate a comparison > > between Debian und Ubuntu to make it easier for us to track differences. > > Its generated

Re: Debian/Ubuntu Java merge status

2007-03-05 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 05.03.2007, 22:36 +0100 schrieb Michael Koch: > Lucus Nussbaum was so kind to setup a cronjob to generate a comparison > between Debian und Ubuntu to make it easier for us to track differences. > Its generated every 6 hours and shows all packages with "Java" in the > Maintainer fiel

Debian/Ubuntu Java merge status

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
Hello list, Lucus Nussbaum was so kind to setup a cronjob to generate a comparison between Debian und Ubuntu to make it easier for us to track differences. Its generated every 6 hours and shows all packages with "Java" in the Maintainer field. You can find this at http://tiber.tauware.de/~lucas/

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:38:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>I dont think this can be the only option. Two very different version > >>of a library can still be very stable and secure and useful for > >>different programs. Is there any chance

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:43:16AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all! > > Different follow up on that package. I have installed it on Ubuntu > Edgy and ran it through my build (large web application that uses a > lot of Maven plug ins during the build) and all worked fine. Thanks for

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread manfred
Hi all! Different follow up on that package. I have installed it on Ubuntu Edgy and ran it through my build (large web application that uses a lot of Maven plug ins during the build) and all worked fine. I forward a "announcement" to the Maven user and Maven developers list. Lots of the

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread manfred
Quoting Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I dont think this can be the only option. Two very different version of a library can still be very stable and secure and useful for different programs. Is there any chance that this approach is being reconsidered? I dont think so. Every duplicated lib

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread manfred
Quoting Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it would be better to just leave the version as is and accept that multiple version sit around on the file system. They don' cause any harm anyway. The Debian package will support this for _users_, it will work just l

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:28:11AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Debian always installs jars with ther version number. The files without > >version numbers are just symlinks to the latest version. > > Ah... thats good to know. > > >Debian only p

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Matthias Klose
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think it would be better to just leave the version as is and accept > that multiple version sit around on the file system. They don' cause > any harm anyway. they do. Do you volunteer to provide security upgrades for two years for 10 versions of the same library?

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread manfred
Quoting Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Debian always installs jars with ther version number. The files without version numbers are just symlinks to the latest version. Ah... thats good to know. Debian only packages one (the latest) version of a Java software. Everthing else would be a hor

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Marcus Better
[guys, please don't CC me, I am subscribed.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think it would be better to just leave the version as is and accept > that multiple version sit around on the file system. They don' cause > any harm anyway. The Debian package will support this for _users_, it will work ju

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread manfred
Quoting Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell the problem exists because many libraries do dramatic changes to their API quite regularly .. Major API changes may warrant having two different versions of a library in Debian. This happens from time to

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Marcus Better
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as I can tell the problem exists because many libraries do > dramatic changes to their API quite regularly .. Major API changes may warrant having two different versions of a library in Debian. This happens from time to time. However if such changes happen very of

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:50:18AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >On 3/5/07, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[...] > >>>I understand your point of view and respect it. But as we are > >>>responsible in some way of the software we packa

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread manfred
Quoting Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:27:04PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > I was not talking of the dependencies version problem for debian but > for someone using maven in debian with a debian repository ;-) I don't see the need for a spec

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:41:07AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Another issue: Maven projects tend to specify exact version of their > >dependencies. For building Debian packages, we need to get Maven to use > >whatever version we have in Debian

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread manfred
Quoting Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 3/5/07, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I understand your point of view and respect it. But as we are responsible in some way of the software we package and distribute, we cannot distribute a software for Debian that could install non

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread manfred
Quoting Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Another issue: Maven projects tend to specify exact version of their dependencies. For building Debian packages, we need to get Maven to use whatever version we have in Debian (and just make sure it's recent enough). Hi all! I apologize if the follow

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:59:02PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On 3/5/07, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > >> I understand your point of view and respect it. But as we are > >> responsible in some way of the software we package and distribute, we > >> cannot distribute a softwar

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:27:04PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > I was not talking of the dependencies version problem for debian but > > for someone using maven in debian with a debian repository ;-) > > I don't see the need for a special Debian-Maven repository. Me nei

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:05:57PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > We are mixing concepts here ;-) (we should meet for real ;-)) > > On 3/5/07, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:49:39PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > >> Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > [...] > >> > Also, w

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 3/5/07, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] My plan for this would to upload working packages to some common repository outside the official Debian archive to get the work done and dont need to wait for ftp-master approval for each package. When all packages are done and cleaned up I

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:13:28PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > user pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > usertag 323050 maven2-packaging > thanks > > > But I currently try a different route. I put all maven dependencies > > (jars) into a new big package maven-dependencies and will then

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Marcus Better
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > I was not talking of the dependencies version problem for debian but > for someone using maven in debian with a debian repository ;-) I don't see the need for a special Debian-Maven repository. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 3/5/07, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] What we learnt from the past that we dont always manage to do this. We should cripple Maven so much that people used to it and switching to Debian can work with it anymore because it behaves different. Or does not work. I have the same pr

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
We are mixing concepts here ;-) (we should meet for real ;-)) On 3/5/07, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:49:39PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: [...] > > Also, we try to have less possible different versions (we try to have > > the latest

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:52:43PM +0100, Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > Michael Koch wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:16:27PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >>Hi Marcus, > >> > >>On 3/5/07, Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > As a user Maven should behave just

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 3/5/07, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I understand your point of view and respect it. But as we are > responsible in some way of the software we package and distribute, we > cannot distribute a software for Debian that could install non free > software in all ~'s. Binary blo

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Marcus Better
user pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org usertag 323050 maven2-packaging thanks > But I currently try a different route. I put all maven dependencies > (jars) into a new big package maven-dependencies and will then build > maven2 with it as Build-Dependency. Ok, fine. As you see I userta

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Trygve Laugstøl
Michael Koch wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:16:27PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Hi Marcus, On 3/5/07, Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trygve Laugstøl wrote: As a user Maven should behave just like upstream Maven, meaning that it will download from the internet and install stuff u

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:43:35PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > Michael Koch wrote: > > And the dependencies mostly need maven2 for building too. Bootstrapping > > can be fun. > > But we can use your preliminary maven2 package to build the dependencies, I > assume? That would solve the bootstra

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Marcus Better
Michael Koch wrote: > And the dependencies mostly need maven2 for building too. Bootstrapping > can be fun. But we can use your preliminary maven2 package to build the dependencies, I assume? That would solve the bootstrapping problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >> The only requirement I have from the Debian packagers is that Maven from > >> Debian still behaves *exactly* like Maven from Apache from a users point > >> of view. > > > we cannot distribute a software for

Your Debian ITP for the Java forehead package

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Cager
Aldous, I am interested in a Debian version of the "forehead" Java library, and I noticed your ITP for it (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344112). I was just wondering how it was going, and if you had an idea of when it is likely to be completed? Or, if you no longer have the ti

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:29:37AM +0100, Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > The only requirement I have from the Debian packagers is that Maven from > Debian still behaves *exactly* like Maven from Apache from a users point > of view. If not I will not and can not support it in any way. This is > imperat

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Marcus Better
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >> The only requirement I have from the Debian packagers is that Maven from >> Debian still behaves *exactly* like Maven from Apache from a users point >> of view. > we cannot distribute a software for Debian that could install non free > software in all ~'s. Of course we ca

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:16:27PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > On 3/5/07, Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > >> As a user Maven should behave just like > >> upstream Maven, meaning that it will download from the internet and > >> install stuff un

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:49:39PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > >> 2. For building Debian packages: This needs to use Debian versions of > >> dependencies. > > > Also, we try to have less possible different versions (we try to have > > the latest stable), but with Maven

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:11:41PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi Trygve, > > On 3/5/07, Trygve Laugstøl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >> On 3/4/07, Manfred Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Sunday March 4 2007 09:27, Michael Koch wrote: > >>> > >>> > I have buil

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Hi Marcus, On 3/5/07, Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > As a user Maven should behave just like > upstream Maven, meaning that it will download from the internet and > install stuff under ~/.m2/repository. [...] > For the dpkg builder Maven should still behave l

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Hi Trygve, On 3/5/07, Trygve Laugstøl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On 3/4/07, Manfred Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday March 4 2007 09:27, Michael Koch wrote: >> >> > I have built a preliminary Debian packages for Maven 2 > > [...] To me the answer is obviou

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Marcus Better
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >> 2. For building Debian packages: This needs to use Debian versions of >> dependencies. > Also, we try to have less possible different versions (we try to have > the latest stable), but with Maven, you can work with older versions > of a lib. Do we accept this? IMHO we sh

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Marcus Better
Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > As a user Maven should behave just like > upstream Maven, meaning that it will download from the internet and > install stuff under ~/.m2/repository. [...] > For the dpkg builder Maven should still behave like Maven *but* with > some environmental changes it can comply wi

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-05 Thread Trygve Laugstøl
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: On 3/4/07, Manfred Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday March 4 2007 09:27, Michael Koch wrote: > I have built a preliminary Debian packages for Maven 2 [...] This is great. I use Maven2 on a daily base as part of my job. I am running the upstream install in Ubun