Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source
Dear all, I'm the current maintainer of ZeroC Ice packages. Ice is a GPL'd CORBA-like middleware for distributed heterogeneous computing. Recently the upstream developers reunified all of the source packages into a single big tarball. Some of the packages (the Java5 packages) work well under icedtea and Sun JRE 6 but they don't work at all under any other Java 6 JVM distributed in Debian. Therefore they should go to contrib. But now there is just one source package. AFAIK IcedTea is entering main debian soon. Should I split the source package into a main and contrib part? Should I release binaries for the DFSG-free part and provide a simple way to recompile the package with the full functionality? Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)? Is it fine to upload a binary to contrib while the source package is in main? Best regards, Paco -- Paco Moya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote: Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)? I don't see a reason to not do that. Is it fine to upload a binary to contrib while the source package is in main? Technicaly this is possible, but AFAIK the ftp team don't longer want this to be used. Bastian -- A woman should have compassion. -- Kirk, Catspaw, stardate 3018.2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source
On Tue Apr 01 14:26, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote: Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)? I don't see a reason to not do that. I believe this is still required to be in contrib (certainly I have packages meeting that description), the binaries depend on something outside of main to run... Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
