Hi, some months ago I started to do some cleanups in the java code of maven-repo- helper (mrh) and maven-debian-helper (mdh). Ludovic Claude was kind enough to review them and to fast-forward the git repositories. However these changes are not yet in an uploaded version.
I've got the impression that currently nobody takes a lot of care of these two packages, is that right? (Ludovic wrote he currently focuses on other things.) I started to look at them because a few things really annoyed me, especially with a large project like gerrit: - mh_make is very unfriendly: - There are many pauses in the mh_make when it is scanning the archive. I want mh_make to do all checks in a row and then to ask me all questions in a row (as far as possible). - mh_make is unreliable: I don't understand, why it does not find certain dependencies that are installed and have matching coordinates - The mh_make run isn't permitting at all. One false answer and I have to start over. - In multi-module projects mh_make does not remember my decisions from other modules but asks me again and again the same questions. - mh_make works all or nothing. I can't use it just to write the copyright file for example. - Our whole toolchain with javahelper, mdh and mrh seems unnecessarily complicated to me. The situation of java in Debian might improve a lot if these tools became better. I'm sure I've missed a few annoyances. I continued yesterday to work on mrh and mdh. I will ensure backwards compatibility so that all packages continue to build. But I started now to do more involving refactorings that change (simplify) the overall architecture of the java code (to the better...). Please also consider my next mail in a few minutes. Regarding Gerrit I'm currently waiting for a couple of sponsorings. Despite my critics, thanks to the original authors for providing tools to package java stuff! Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
