On Wed, 6 May 2020 13:11:52 -0400 Olek Wojnar <o...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 12:32 PM Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 04:54:22PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > > Taking the source from: > > > https://code.google.com/archive/p/java-diff-utils/source/default/source > > > the packaging was fairly simple and if noone has already done it I can > > > finalize it and upload to mentors and change this to ITP at the same > > time. > >
> That would be great! It would be best to have someone from the Java Team > review/sponsor but, if none of them are available, I am willing to do that. > fwiw, I did a diff and its the same source in the linked jar and the > > link I gave. Also, looking at java-diff-utils that Andrej mentioned, is > > actually a fork from the google code. > Thanks for doing that extra check and good to know! The fork (as well as > the line vs character thing) would probably be good to mention in the > package description so it's clear for everyone. I'd also consider adding > the "google" at the front of the package name (or something else) to easily > distinguish it from the one already in the repository and prevent confusion > from users. I don’t think we need the original code since it’s much older and the fork has seen quite some development. They are backwards-compatible except that the Maven coordinates are different. Basically, we only need to patch Bazel to use it. -- Cheers, Andrej
