Cesare Tirabassi wrote: > Hello, > > I have patched turkey to solve an ftbfs in Ubuntu gutsy (thanks > especially to the work of Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz) and made some > general update and clean up; I attach the patch to this email. > I was told by a Debian QA person that since turkey is currently > orphaned, I could help Debian as well offering to adopt this package. > Bear with me as I'm quite new to Debian, is there a sponsor willing to > help me out with this? > The patch I attach is for Ubuntu, so it needs a couple of (I believe) > minor changes to the changelog and checking of dependancies (as well as > the jvm directory). > The package NEEDS the sun jvm to be able to run properly in gui mode, so > it needs as well to be moved to the non-free archive. > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Cesare Tirabassi > > >
Hello Cesare, I'm not a DD so I can't offer to sponsor you. However there are plenty of DDs on the debian-java list who might be able to help (I've CCed that list). I used to use turkey to generate filler text so I'm glad it has found someone to look after it. Does Ubuntu currently just sync this package with Debian? A couple of questions: * Can it still be *built* using free Java implementations? * Can you still use its command line interface with a free Java runtime (I'm pretty sure this is possible). If so then maybe it should stay in main - what's everybody else's opinion? There's a Debian Java Packaging team that you might find useful: http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html You might want to have a look at this FAQ: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html or some of these documents: http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
