On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:08:49AM +0200, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > Came across FreeShim. > > It is stated that packages exist for Debian and Ubuntu > > http://freeshim.org/download/ > > It lists an Ubuntu PPA and corresponding packages.
Yes. > I can't seem to find the package in Debian. There is no such package in Debian - the provided package in PPA might work (or not - I have not tested, but I expect it wor work). > What confuses me is the fact that there is a Debian-med team on launchpad > which seems to operate a Debian-med PPA (personal package archive) Well, you probably can register such a PPA and I vaguely remember that somebody said he would like to do this. I'm sorry, but I'm a bit PPA ignorant. > How is this team related to Debian-med and this the place to get Debian to > Ubuntu converted packages ? I have no problem with this if it helps - but it should definitely be documented in some reasonable place. > In the Debian-med taks pages there it is listed as unofficial package > https://launchpad.net/~rufustfirefly/+archive/ppa/+buildjob/2489799/+files/shim_0.1.1-1ubuntu2~maverick_all.deb Yes, that's correct. This is our way to try to help users if we are behind the packaging efforts but have not finished. > It seems there were some packaging issues with the prior version. > as indicated here : http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2011/01/msg00007.html > > Have those been solved ? Any clarification is appreciated. We are trapped with Java-Maven issues. The shim package on PPA builds with network connection and downloads 40MB compressed java stuff from the net when building. This is a no go for Debian packages. We need to sort out all the Java dependency mess. From a quick overlook several package dependencies are there - but definitely not all. (Do you remember Mayam - it is quite the same :-() So the answer is: If there is a Java educated volunteer who works on this stuff it might speed up things drastically. Otherwise I'm working on it slowly because I can not work on all this stuff exclusively. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
