Hi everyone, I have been trying to package libsis-jhdf5-java, after Andreas imported the last upstream version. This package builds a java package with a .jar file and a jni package with native code used by the .jar.
I have been able to: - refresh patches; - get rid of the private header H5private.h of source package hdf5, which is not shipped by any package. Only a few simple preprocessor directives of that file were used; - update the list of build-depends; - have the package build, including the override of dh_auto_test that caused issues previously. Yet: - it seems that only a few upstream-provided tests are run in dh_auto_test, so having the build complete is maybe not so meaningful :-( ; - I have begun designing tests for the autopkgtest testsuite, using upstream-provided tests, and while around 30 of them pass, there remains a lot of failing tests. It seems that the linking of the jni with the jar is not correctly done at build-time. At that point I would need help, as this package is complicated: the build processes of the jar and the jni are somehow entangled and I do not have enough knowledge of Java packaging to be able to solve the issues I'm facing. Maybe there does not remain so much to be done; if someone has Java knowledge and could look to the current packaging I have put into Salsa [1], this would be really great. Thank you and have a good week, All the best, Pierre [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libsis-jhdf5-java
