Bug#873341: Any news for this issue?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi again,

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 01:51:09PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> 
> You undeniably have the best understanding of SBT among the Debian
> developers. Even if you don't have the time to tackle all of this by
> yourself, do you think you could sketch a plan we could follow to
> achieve the SBT packaging? I'm sure people will jump in and help if the
> steps are clearly identified and with someone coordinating the packaging
> effort.

Since this mail remained unanswered I take the freedom to nag again:
What can we do to get sbt finally packaged?  I had the feeling that we
were *very* close last year and may be some discussing with ftpmaster
would have been sufficient (may be I'm wrong here).  But currently there
is a deadlock which needs some solution.

For my target project[1] I currently see no other clue than dumping
the JAR created by upstream into a non-free package since I have no
idea how to deal with those 17 *.scala files of that project. :-(

Kind regards

  Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/pilon

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Bug#873341: Any news for this issue?

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 28/05/2018 à 10:41, Frédéric Bonnard a écrit :

> What's your opinion on this ?

Hi Frédéric,

You undeniably have the best understanding of SBT among the Debian
developers. Even if you don't have the time to tackle all of this by
yourself, do you think you could sketch a plan we could follow to
achieve the SBT packaging? I'm sure people will jump in and help if the
steps are clearly identified and with someone coordinating the packaging
effort.

Emmanuel Bourg

Bug#873341: Sbt packaging (Was: Bug#873341: Any news for this issue?)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Frédéric,

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:41:09AM +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote:
> I'm still out of time at the moment on the sbt front.
> The new packaging way I was investigating is idle at the moment.

Thanks for the update.

> The other way I was thinking of is to push things in non-free, but then
> I'm not sure we could drag things back in main and also I think people
> relying on sbt would prefer it to be available in main.
> What's your opinion on this ?

I do not think we should try a detour via non-free if the code is
actually free.

> I've spend so much time on this already, and I wouldn't want it to be
> useless, so I'm still willing to pursue that effort, but I'll have to
> wait some time to have some spare time again.

Any volunteer to work on this.  I think there quite some amount of
interesting Free Software out there that needs sbt.

> I'll have to ask for removal of that set of packages for now as it's
> incomplete as it is right now and the packaging not compliant with
> Debian's policy.

Please hold on before you ask for removal of source package files.  New
queue processing is quite slow currently.  It would be better to fix the
issues - and if you be a bit more verbose what exactly is not policy
compliant I'd colunteer to have a look.

Kind regards

  Andreas. 
 
> On Fri, 25 May 2018 13:33:05 +0200, Andreas Tille  wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I once libscala-pickling-java and I wonder whether I could provide any
> > help.  I'd love to finalise the project that made me stumbling about sbt
> > last year.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >  Andreas.
> > 
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> > http://fam-tille.de
> > 



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Bug#873341: Any news for this issue?

[Frédéric Bonnard]

Hi Andreas/all,

I'm still out of time at the moment on the sbt front.
The new packaging way I was investigating is idle at the moment.
The other way I was thinking of is to push things in non-free, but then
I'm not sure we could drag things back in main and also I think people
relying on sbt would prefer it to be available in main.
What's your opinion on this ?

I've spend so much time on this already, and I wouldn't want it to be
useless, so I'm still willing to pursue that effort, but I'll have to
wait some time to have some spare time again.
I'll have to ask for removal of that set of packages for now as it's
incomplete as it is right now and the packaging not compliant with
Debian's policy.

F.

On Fri, 25 May 2018 13:33:05 +0200, Andreas Tille  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I once libscala-pickling-java and I wonder whether I could provide any
> help.  I'd love to finalise the project that made me stumbling about sbt
> last year.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>  Andreas.
> 
> -- 
> http://fam-tille.de
> 


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Bug#873341: Any news for this issue?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

I once libscala-pickling-java and I wonder whether I could provide any
help.  I'd love to finalise the project that made me stumbling about sbt
last year.

Kind regards

 Andreas.

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