Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
Package name : openrocket Version : 23.09 URL : https://openrocket.info License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: Java Description : Model Rocket Simulator OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before actually building and flying them. . OpenRocket features a full six-degree-of-freedom simulation, realistic wind modeling, a multitude of different components including free-form and canted fins, clustering and staging. Years ago, I packaged OpenRocket for Debian main. It's a Java app, and as upstream embedded more and more third-party class libs in their source tree, often in the form of binary jar files, I eventually "gave up" and replaced the full source build with an installer for the "fat" application jar file provided by upstream in contrib. Then upstream development stalled, and there were no new releases for some years. The installer package gradually became less useful as the release it was designed for from 2015 had a hard dependency on Java versions no longer available in any version of Debian. In recent times, the upstream development community around OpenRocket has gotten healthier, and new releases have been made. Because the existing installer in contrib did not work with them, I agreed with the idea in bug #1079850 that the installer should just be removed from Debian contrib entirely. In the near term, it is possible to use upstream's distribution-agnostic Linux download to obtain and run the program, though that is of course side-stepping Debian policy and the DFSG. For some time, I've been slowly working through the issues that prevent a "proper" build of OpenRocket for Debian main. A couple bugs filed upstream and against class library packages in Debian have been responded to, but there's more to do. I'm filing this ITP as a replacement for both the installer package just removed from contrib, and the RFP filed as bug #1021564 which has of course been closed with the removal of the existing package. To be clear, I'd *LOVE* to have help from anyone who groks Java packaging in Debian to get the remaining embedded class libraries that aren't already packaged taken care of, updating those that have fallen out of date, etc. Feel free to reach out to me directly if you'd like to help get OpenRocket back in Debian main! Bdale
