Bug#736123: ITP: sbbi-upnplib -- Java library for universal plug and play (upnp)

2014-01-23 Thread Scott Howard
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Jonathan Yu jaw...@cpan.org wrote: Does apt-get source expect the source package name, or will it also work with binary package names? If I do apt-get source libupnp-java, will it download the sbbi-upnplib package? If so, then this seems to be an especially

Bug#736123: ITP: sbbi-upnplib -- Java library for universal plug and play (upnp)

2014-01-19 Thread Scott Howard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard show...@debian.org * Package name: sbbi-upnplib Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : SuperBonBon Industries * URL : http://sourceforge.net/p/triplea/code/HEAD/tree/upnp/ * License : Apache-1.1 Programming

Bug#736123: ITP: sbbi-upnplib -- Java library for universal plug and play (upnp)

2014-01-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hey Scott, I don't presume to be an expert here, but I wanted to mention that the package name specified in your ITP does not match the usual conventions for libraries in Debian, nor for Java libraries specifically: Java libraries packages must be named libXXX[version]-java (without the

Bug#736123: ITP: sbbi-upnplib -- Java library for universal plug and play (upnp)

2014-01-19 Thread Scott Howard
Hi all, The binary package is named libupnp-java, seen here: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/sbbi-upnplib.git;a=blob;f=debian/control;h=8014fb5b4d2c3eb60968caaa6c239562002dd9f7;hb=HEAD I named the source package to match the name of the upstream tarball file

Bug#736123: ITP: sbbi-upnplib -- Java library for universal plug and play (upnp)

2014-01-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hey Scott, It has been said that There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton :-) The binary package was of the most concern to me, because that's what users will look for when installing. I actually have no experience with Java

Bug#736123: ITP: sbbi-upnplib -- Java library for universal plug and play (upnp)

2014-01-19 Thread Eric L.
Hi, Most java library source packages don't respect the format libXXX-java, which is rather meant for the binary package. Keeping the upstream name for the source and, as noted by Jonathan, considering the fact that one source might create more than a library, e.g. a javadoc package, that