On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:33:06PM +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: Hello Sascha and other interested parties:
> Hi Tony, > > On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:49:23 -0800 tony mancill <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2015-11-04 14:21, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > > Source: closure-compiler > > > Version: 20130227+dfsg1-8 > > > Followup-For: Bug #733586 > > > > > > Gentle ping? The latest upstream release is 20151015 as far as I can > > > see. There have been some changes so the present Debianisation cannot > > > simply be forwarded. My skills in Java packaging are however somewhat > > > limited. > > > > > > Christoph, on behalf of another person who is interested in using > > > closure-compiler > > [snip] > > > I took a look at the 20151015 release and so far it appears that we only > > need to package one additional reverse dependency - "truth" > > (http://google.github.io/truth). We may also take advantage of this > > opportunity to switch from ant to the maven-based build system. I'll > > try to get the new r-dep packaged this weekend and then see how quickly > > we can get the rest of it ready to go. > > I was wondering if there has been any progress? I myself am also looking into > packaging closure-library, which would also profit from a newer > closure-compiler (and in fact calls new style parameters in its build script). I have been looking into packaging 20161201, but haven't made any significant progress on it. Here are some notes regarding what I have looked into so far: 1) It's not going to be feasible to get an updated libtruth-java into stretch before the freeze, as truth depends upon another library com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations 2) According to the POM, the dependency on libtruth-java is only needed for testCompile, so we could just skip the tests, but I found a few references to packages in com.google.common.truth sprinkled around the src/ tree as well, so we'll need to patch those out. 3) The build system is now maven-based, which should be a step forward, but mh_make doesn't get very far with it, and I haven't had enough cycles to look into sequencing the individual poms. 4) There is a note in the upstream README.md: Running `mvn -DskipTests -pl externs/pom.xml,pom-main.xml,pom-main-shaded.xml` will skip building the GWT version of the compiler. This can speed up the build process significantly. I'm unsure as to what the differences between the GWT-version and the non-GWT-version would be with respect to the Debian package. So, in summary, I haven't been much progress on an new version (despite a number of failed starts). I'm happy to work together with someone, or to help with sponsoring and/or reviewing. Cheers, tony
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