Am Freitag, 29. April 2011, 10:28:02 schrieb Andreas Tille: > 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/+file > > s/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.
Thanks for your input, Best regards, Sebasitan Hilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
