Re: Someone working on ws-jaxme?

2006-03-14 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Eric, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > > for jibx packaging (well, actually, xsd2jibx), I would need ws-jaxme as a > dependency (I'm currently using the jar jaxme-js-0.3, which is part of the > jibx sources). > I vaguely remember that someone said, he would work on jaxme. Is this > still c

Re: JBoss Packages?

2006-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Guido Guenther wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 07:30:20PM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: > >>For a) It would be helpful if you could provide a list of the needed >>3rd party jars. Then if someone finds time could package one without >>having to look throu

Re: JBoss Packages?

2006-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Guido, Guido Guenther wrote: > Hi Torsten, > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 04:49:00PM +0100, Torsten Schlabach wrote: > >>Does anyone know of or is working on packaging recent versions of the JBoss >>application server for Debian? > > Have a look at: > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-jboss > this

Re: Some progress with freeing openjump

2006-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Petter, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I've spent a few hours trying to make build rules for OpenJump and > build it with free tools, and have made some progress. The result is > available from > http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/openjump/?cvsroot=pkg-grass>. You may want to look

Re: Java policy draft; a road map proposal...

2006-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Pierre Métras wrote: > >>>Hello list, > > > Salut Pierre, > > >>>Having read the new Draft page, read again another time many pages on the >>>wiki, in the Java FAQ and in the Java Policy, the java-common bugs, I still >>>stay with the feeling that there is no cle

Re: [Debian-Java] Bits from the FOSDEM

2006-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi all, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > > - java libraries can go to main if they can be built with free VM; > If the library builds with a free VM and only runs partially under a free > VM, the question should be "is there a program ready to go to main, > depending on this library, an

Re: Packaging Maven 2 - shipping binaries for bootstrapping.

2006-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Philipp, Philipp Meier wrote: [..] > > My worry is still wheter to ship binaries in the source to bootsrap a > first maven 2 version in debian or going to make ant files for the first > version's dependencies. I don't know anything about maven but we need to go with the ant files as otherwise

Re: [Debian-Java] Bits from the FOSDEM

2006-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Arnaud Vandyck: > > >> We have some proposals about the Debian-Java policy changes that >>includes: > > >>- java libraries can go to main if they can be built with free VM; > > > "can be built" or "are built"? AFAICS, only the latter complies with > the letter of

Bug#348649: ftbfs: "I can't find file `policy.aux'."

2006-02-10 Thread Wolfgang Baer
tags 348649 + unreproducible moreinfo thanks Hi, I just tried it on an uptodate sid and with an uptodate pbuilder and both built java-common without a problem. Can you retry and if it still fails provide more information about the system and the versions of the build-dependencies you are using

Re: Anyone packaging Azureus?

2006-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Praveen, please reply to list. प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) wrote: > > > 2006/1/25, Wolfgang Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > > Looks like you miss unstable/contrib in your sources list ! > > > OOPS! I didn't have co

Re: Anyone packaging Azureus?

2006-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Praveen, प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) wrote: > > But I'm not able to see it in my apt-cache > > icon113:~# apt-get update [...] > icon113:~# apt-cache search azureus > icon113:~# apt-cache show azureus | grep Maintainer > icon113:~# > Looks like you miss unstable/contrib in your sources list ! Wol

Re: Trying to build jonas deb package

2006-01-23 Thread Wolfgang Baer
प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) wrote: 2006/1/23, Wolfgang Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quite clear that you miss a build dependency on ant-optional. You should make notes about what dependencies you need, so you don't forget them later in the debian/control file :-) Wolfgang man-di point

Re: Trying to build jonas deb package

2006-01-23 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Praveen, प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) wrote: 2006/1/20, Wolfgang Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: kaffe is currently the only VM with the corba rmi stuff. So you should try to compile with kaffe. Or patch the use of corba out in the build system. May be a non-trivial task - depends on the qual

Re: Trying to build jonas deb package

2006-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Praveen, प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) wrote: 2006/1/20, प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I' m trying to figure out how to build jonas for debian. I am a newbie to debian packaging. If anyone alse is working on the same thing it would great to work together. I think currently nobo

Re: kaffe transition & freemind

2006-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Eric, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: Hi, I've got a good news: FreeMind is compiling with the new kaffe. The bad news is that it's not usable with kaffe (FreeMind starts but spits errors, doesn't redraw properly when using the menus, and is just not usable). Thats just normal, given the stat

Re: kaffe transition: works packages

2006-01-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Joerg, Joerg Sommer wrote: Hi, I've a package (bootchart) that is marked as works on the transition page[1]. What must I do? Do I need to upload a new version? The Java Byte Code in the old package should be compatible to the one of the new JVM. If it is marked as works you have to do noth

Re: Working on tomcat 5.5.x

2006-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Baer
adrian wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 17:45:21 +0100 (+0100), Wolfgang Baer wrote: However what versions are the stuff below ? All these issues are corrected since quite some time and are also already migrated to testing. Also I don't remember that libservlet2.4-java was ever in contrib.

Re: Working on tomcat 5.5.x

2006-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Adrian, adrian wrote: > What wonderful timing - I was in need of a tomcat 5.5 package too. Thanks for your help. However what versions are the stuff below ? All these issues are corrected since quite some time and are also already migrated to testing. Also I don't remember that libservlet2.4-

Re: Working on tomcat 5.5.x

2006-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Wolfgang Baer wrote: > Hi Arnaud, > > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >>>>Create a special binary package which contains the >>>>modified sources extracted from tomcat 5.5 >> >>I don't understand this point. >> >>>>CVS with collec

Re: Working on tomcat 5.5.x

2006-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Arnaud, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Wolfgang Baer wrote: > 1° I did not work on it at the moment, I just build the original tarball > but maybe it's not a good one. If you think you have a better original > tarball, can you send it to me in private, I'll upload it to t

Re: Working on tomcat 5.5.x

2006-01-10 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Arnaud, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm (slowly) working on Tomcat5.5.x branch for Debian. I already started long time ago ... Have you already worked on it ? Otherwise you can get my results so far. I have ported the patches ... Apart from that the following has to be done: Add mx

Re: naming library packages

2006-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Matthew, Matthew Johnson wrote: I have a Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 set of bindings for dbus. Is there a policy on naming such packages? Currently the 1.5 one is packaged as libdbus-java (only in my build tree though, so it can change), I've just backported to 1.4, but its not as featureful, so I

Re: Is classpath-tools useful?

2006-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Petter, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I just found classpath-tools listed quite high on http://haydn.debian.org/~thuriaux-guest/qa/global.html>. The package look like it could need some care. Is the package still useful? I could not quite see what it does. It's only needed for sablevm via t

Re: Questions about Eclipse, EMF, ecj...

2005-12-22 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Eric, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: Hi, The next kaffe package will switch to ecj as the default compiler. Is it already possible to switch? No, it needs adaption only available in upstream CVS and some tweaks in the packaging. I will be without internet from today on until end of year.

Re: Questions about Eclipse, EMF, ecj...

2005-12-22 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Eric, Michael Koch wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:38:16PM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: 3. Also for FreeMind, I tried to use kaffe but jikes dumped and its development seems to be quite stalled. Is there an option to use ecj as a drop-in replacement

Re: RFC: wiki.debian.org/Java

2005-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi all, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Gybas wrote: Arnaud Vandyck wrote: | Maybe you mean java.debian.net. This wiki is maybe too open... it's a | problem for spam. Also, I though maybe we could find some hardware to The server that java.debian.n

Re: RFC: libinieditor-java

2005-11-10 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Michael Koch wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:13:01AM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: [...] (2) Depends: gij | kaffe | sablevm | java1-runtime | java2-runtime IMHO its enough to depend on one concrete java1-runtime and most packages in debian use kaffe there (but thats a personal viewpoint

Re: RFC: libinieditor-java

2005-11-10 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Aldous, Aldous D. Penaranda wrote: Hello, [...] I was wondering if anyone else would have time to look at it and give some comments. If the packaging seems okay, I would also like to ask for a sponsor if anyone would be willing. (1) Architecture: any Java packages are Architecture: all !

Re: Status of FreeMind

2005-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Eric, Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi, I was recently asked about the status of FreeMind, and I've now succeeded in putting this "on paper", namely under: http://java.debian.net/index.php/MovingJavaToMain (I know, it's partially off-topic, but I didn't see the point of splitting between going main

Re: RFC: wiki.debian.org/Java

2005-11-03 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Maybe you heard that Debian launch an official wiki. I was surprised to see that someone (Tommi Vainikainen? Wolfgang Baer? PedroM? Paolo Pan? ds13? Seo Sanghyeon? Ben Finney?.. Unknown? ;-)) already edited some pages

Re: Status of tomcat5?

2005-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Hello all, What is the status of the move of tomcat5 to main? This is the last step needed to get eclipse into main. Ftp-master will not accept eclipse before tomcat5 is in main. I will finish it this evening as now a java-gcj-compat jdb script is available.

Re: [mass-bug-filing] ant transition

2005-10-12 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Wolfgang told me he'll take care of batik, fop and lucene, he already filed bug reports against nice, groovy and javacc and I sent patches to each. Arnaud you can transition fop - I first thought its needed for my work on the batik package but it isn't. And as it needs to

Re: kaffe 1.1.6 Debian package in Oldenburg

2005-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Wolfgang Baer wrote: > >>>Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > [...] > >>>>I propose to work on the kaffe package there, I think Wolfgang who made >>>>a lot of changes to the package recently will be there so we can work >>&

Re: kaffe 1.1.6 Debian package in Oldenburg

2005-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi all, > > Kaffe 1.1.6 has been release today (or was it yesterday, well...). We > already have (thanks to Wolfgang Baer) a pre release in experimental > solving a lot of bugs. > > Some of us (Debian Java Maffia -- debjam) will be in Oldenburg meet

Re: kaffe 1.1.6 Debian package in Oldenburg

2005-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi all, > > Kaffe 1.1.6 has been release today (or was it yesterday, well...). We > already have (thanks to Wolfgang Baer) a pre release in experimental > solving a lot of bugs. > > Some of us (Debian Java Maffia -- debjam) will be in Oldenburg meet

Bug#326749: java-snmp: Wrong maintainer address

2005-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Package: java-snmp Severity: minor Hi Morten, you used the wrong email address for your last upload please correct the maintainer address to: Debian Java Maintainers in your next upload ! Thanks, Wolfgang -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT po

Re: Bouncy Castle ready

2005-08-30 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Charles, Charles Fry wrote: Please add as much details as you have now to the bug database http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/bugs.html That way the issue isn't forgotten. You can always later add more details if you have more time. Just make sure the instructions on how to repeat the issu

Re: Missing JSpinner component

2005-08-17 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Eric, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > > A have an additional question though: > Under http://java.debian.net/index.php/ShouldGoToMain, chapter "Swing > problem", it's written: > >>Many of these packages might be buildable using [SwingWT], an >>implementation of Swing and AWT based on SWT (whic

Re: Missing JSpinner component

2005-08-17 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > [javac] *** Semantic Error: Type "javax.swing.JSpinner$DateEditor" was > not found. Hi Eric, javax.swing.JSpinner$DateEditor is already implemented in GNU classpath CVS (the only missing Editor is javax.swing.JSpinner$ListEditor atm). You should be able t

Re: The most popular java packages in contrib

2005-08-09 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Rene, Rene Engelhard wrote: Can we get bsh 2.0bX into unstable (or at least experimental)?. At least b1 seems to build fine with gcj4 (as OOo2 includes it in their source tree and building it works..) so it can be moved to main (and OOo2 recommend/suggest it instead of shipping an own bsh.jar

Re: The most popular java packages in contrib

2005-08-09 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Petter, strange list - seems to be stable. >libxalan-java 160 removed form archive >libjakarta-poi-java 16 >libcommons-collections-java-doc 15 >libcommons-beanutils-java-doc 14 already in main ... Wolfgang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Going to NMU jikes (C++ ABI update)

2005-07-21 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Petter, thats fine as its also a dep for kaffe. Arnaud and I just decided that we will do a new 1.1.5 kaffe revision upload for the c++ transition plus packaging changes by the start of next week. 1.1.6 of kaffe will take somewhat longer - so we don't block updating of all the java stuff buil

Looking for a sponsor for moves to main etc.

2005-07-15 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi all, as Arnaud is currently busy in his new house and won't be able to sponsor me the next time I am looking for a sponsor ! Currently ready packages: ant (upstream 1.6.5) for a move to main libstruts1.2-java - move to main (depends on ant) libpgjava - upstream which supports postgresql 8.0

Re: java-functions in Debian

2005-07-12 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > is the file /usr/share/java-utils/java-functions in any package? It comes > from http://www.jpackage.org/. Hi Jörg, I don't know this file or what it does/should do, but I don't think you will find any jpackage specific functions/tools in Debian packages. Please, a

Re: I'm trying to install ant, and it's complaining about tools.jar not being in /usr/lib/sablevm/lib/

2005-07-06 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Xeno Campanoli wrote: Okay, I install ant with apt-get, and now I still have some odd problems. One, when I specify -h it tries to do a build, and still doesn't see tools.jar: free vm's don't provide tools.jar - this is just a warning message which can be ignored as the free vm's provide their

Re: I'm trying to install ant, and it's complaining about tools.jar not being in /usr/lib/sablevm/lib/

2005-07-05 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > I get nothing with apt-cache show ant[:]?. Perhaps you're using SID. For > apt-cache search I get ant-phone, anteater, antennavis, anthy*, antiword, > and antlr. No ant. Seems you are missing contrib (there it is) in your sources.list entry. Wolfgang -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Policy/recommendation on compiling with version 1.4 vs. 1.5?

2005-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Michael Riedel] > >>Does any of them support the new language features of java 1.5? > > > No idea. Please post your test summary here, so the rest of us can > learn it too. :) Currently there is no free compiler in the archive for 1.5 source. The only free compil

Re: Policy/recommendation on compiling with version 1.4 vs. 1.5?

2005-07-04 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > > my understanding of the differences between Java 1.4 and 1.5 is that > programs compiled with Java 1.5 might not work in the JVM 1.4, but the > other way around should always work. > > So my questions: > 1. is this correct? Depends on the source :-) If the

Re: Tomcat 5.5.x and mod-jk 1.2.x for Apache 2.0.x

2005-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Takashi, Takashi Okamoto wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody have plan to build Tomcat 5.5.x or mod-jk 1.2.x for > Apache 2.0.x package? Tomcat5 (the 5.0.30) is in experimental - but has some problems (missing links, dependencies, ...) - Arnaud has done the work so far but he is rather busy atm

Re: libs in Debian?

2005-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Joerg, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > I've a package, that uses these libs: > lib/org/jibble/epsgraphics Never heard of this one. > lib/org/apache/commons > lib/org/apache/commons/compress > lib/org/apache/commons/compress/tar compress is an apache sandbox project - no releases yet. > lib/o

Re: libapache2-mod-jk2 configuration

2005-06-27 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:12:46 +0100, > Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Thursday 23 June 2005 20:17, Mark Lowe wrote: >> >>>I'd stay away from jk2 is deprecated in favour of maintaining the >>>original mod_jk. The configuration for jk2 meant more hoop-jumpin

Re: Update on libxalan2-java to main

2005-05-08 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Michael Koch wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:05:51PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: [...] Building kaffe with Cairo is on the Debian Kaffe Road Map http://java.debian.net/index.php/PlansForKaffeInDebian We can currently only use cairo 0.3.0. The 0.4.0 in Debian doenst work. When the cairo API stab

Update on libxalan2-java to main

2005-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi all, there is a short update on xalan2. I had success building xalan2 including javadoc and other docs with gij-3.4/kaffe and gjdoc 0.7.4 This setup needs a rather hacked build script and rules file and works ONLY on the users machine. I have not succeeded to built it in a chroot due to missing

Re: First try at free-java-sdk with jcalendar... some help required.

2005-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Eric Lavarde wrote: [...] I replaced all java.awt/javax.swing through swingwt.awt/swingwtx.swing but now I get a compilation error without any hint on why. I created a target for this:

Re: First try at free-java-sdk with jcalendar... some help required.

2005-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Eric Lavarde wrote: Grrr (again), jcalendar 1.1.4 is a bit more than outdated... And it comes with (and requires) the kunststoff library (which is not part of Debian, and actually not maintained anymore). Well was just an suggestion. SwingWT is officially supporting JSpinner, I'll have a try. Any

Re: [RFC] Debian Java Announcement for Sarge

2005-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Debian J*v* people, I think we have to make an announcement about debian-java in Sarge: what is the status java in Debian, how many packages we moved to main, what are the changes from Woody etc. 0Â Introduction (I forget to mak

Re: First try at free-java-sdk with jcalendar... some help required.

2005-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Eric Lavarde wrote: Hello, motivated by the discussions about free java on this list, I did my first try at freeing a Java package (without promise yet, hence no ITP). I chose jcalendar (http://www.toedter.com/en/jcalendar/) as I raised an RFP and it seems relatively simple, extracted it, install

Re: apache xml-rpc

2005-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Martin Ferrari - DECIDIR Argentina wrote: Hi Wolfgang! I am not a DD so I cannot sponsor your package. However I had a look at it and some questions/comments: Let's see.. - Why don't you package the 2.0 release. Are you dependent on the old release (its from 2003) and is it still maintained ?

Re: apache xml-rpc

2005-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Martin Ferrari wrote: Anyone? Should I try debian-mentors list? Hi Martin, I am not a DD so I cannot sponsor your package. However I had a look at it and some questions/comments: - Why don't you package the 2.0 release. Are you dependent on the old release (its from 2003) and is it still maintain

Re: RFC: removing libsoap-java

2005-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Hi all, xml-soap is dead upstream and replaced by Axis. xml-soap has now a RC bug (#304167) and I don't think it depends on an other package. Can you comment the removing of libsoap-java? +1 from me. I just checked that there are no build or runtime dependencies exist to this

Re: New VM Selection Method

2005-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Jerry Haltom wrote: Actually I had assumed editing the line in /etc/jvm.conf would have been enough for somebody who didn't want a GUI. Was I wrong? Hi Jerry, no you are right - but the discussion was to start ASAP without a GUI tool (which needs more time to achieve) and add the GUI tool later if

Re: java-runtime vs. java1-runtime!?

2005-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi, before I file a bug to java-package: upgrading rhino from 1.5.R5-1 to 1.5.R5-2, it now pulls kaffee and dependencies with itself. It's obviously due to the dependency kaffee|java1-runtime, which is not provided by the java packages created with java-package. Well, I also

Re: New VM Selection Method

2005-04-10 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Michael Koch wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 08:17:22AM +0200, Wolfgang Baer wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 11:12 -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote: We need a standard, nice, easy to extend way for binary wrappers in /usr/bin and/or startup scripts to locate their VM. There are a few requirements that I had

Re: New VM Selection Method

2005-04-10 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Once more forgot to post to list- thanks Jerry. Hi Jerry, Jerry Haltom wrote: Anybody interested in this at all? Yes :-) Sorry, I am currently away and have on sporadic and short access to my email. On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 11:12 -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote: We need a standard, nice, easy to extend way

Re: tomcat4 & free java

2005-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Baer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried using the Debian tomcat4 package, without resorting to Blackdown - but starting Tomcat always fails - fis:~# invoke-rc.d tomcat4 start Starting Tomcat 4.1 servlet engine using Java from /usr/lib/fjsdk: invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat4, action "start" faile

Re: RFC: Removal libxalan-java, lib-saxon-java

2005-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Martin Ferrari wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:28 +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:51:22 +0200, Wolfgang Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: this is another RFC for the removal of libxalan-java and now also lib-saxon-java Both are no longer used in build depends nor runtime d

Re: any free JDKs not using jikes as compiler?

2005-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Andrew, Andrew Vaughan wrote: Hi The reason that I ask is that I would like to try to get Subversions java binding (JavaHL) into the archive. (The current source package has support for building JavaHL but it is disabled by default). Attached two patches which fix the jikes build problem. BTW,

Re: Status of hsqldb package

2005-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Michael Koch wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:07:23PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: The DebianJavaWiki wonders on the subject of the hsqldb package: [...] With Kaffe I get $ kaffe -classpath .:/usr/share/java/hsqldb.jar Test ERROR: java.sql.SQLException: The database is already in use by another

Re: Libgnome-java package

2005-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Bruno Dusausoy wrote: Hi, What about libgnome-java package ? When I try to install libgnome2-java, it says it depends on libgnome-java but the latter doesn't exist : I think you are on an unstable system. There is a transition going on to a new packaging scheme with the last upload: http://packages

RFC: Removal libxalan-java, lib-saxon-java

2005-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi all, this is another RFC for the removal of libxalan-java and now also lib-saxon-java Both are no longer used in build depends nor runtime depends. lib-saxon-java is superseded by libsaxon-java, but is still in the archive. If no objections will show up in the next days I will file a removal bug

Re: RFC: Remove Tomcat3 and libservlet2.2-java

2005-03-22 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Hi, I was looking at libservlet2.2-java and it's not build using cdbs yet! Also, this library is IMHO deprecated. We have libservlet2.3 for Tomcat4 and we should have Tomcat5 (with libservlet2.4) soon (I promise I'll work on it soon). So what do you think about a removal of to

Re: bcel

2005-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Michael Koch wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:21:24AM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: [...] Somehow hsqldb got removed from NEW queue but dont made it into the archive (yet?). I found it on its package site - it is in experimental. And I thought already I would be blind. ;-) http

Re: bcel

2005-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Hello all, a good day for our Java effort. the bcel package got accepted into main. This means we can work on some more packages to move them to main. libmx4j-java comes to my mind which should be directly movable to main and is used by many other packages in contrib

Re: Experimenting with building libxalan2-java with free vm's

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Dalibor Topic wrote: Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: Hi all, Therefore the first question: Are any of the free vm's capable of using the -Djava.endorsed.dirs feature to overwrite the interfaces ? Not yet, afaik. Gcjers are working on it, I plan to follow what they do, but haven't b

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Dalibor Topic wrote: Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: But, kaffe is atm horrible broken for most package builds due to bug (#295014). Every second package fails due to this bug to build. libbsf-java is one of them thats why I had to switch. I already contacted upstream but didn't get any

[Fwd: Re: libbsf-java]

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
--- Begin Message --- Hi again, > The statement of better choice is here maybe a bit out of context. gij, > kaffe or sablevm are in the case of using the vm to BUILD a package for > DEBIAN the (normally) only choice. But that has nothing to do with > the quality or fitness for a given task of jam

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Robert, Robert Lougher wrote: Michael Koch gmx.de> writes: Please don't use jamvm in general. It's only available on i386, powerpc and arm. It's not ported yet to other archs and Porting to 64-bit archs is hard due to the 32-bit ugliness in the upstream code. Better choices are gij, kaffe or s

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Michael, I also post to list - my fault as I forget to post to list in last message. Michael Koch wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:11:02AM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:36:17AM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: [...] Please don't use jamvm in ge

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Forgot to post to list . Michael Koch wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:36:17AM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: [...] Please don't use jamvm in general. It's only available on i386, powerpc and arm. It's not ported yet to other archs and Porting to 64-bit archs is hard due to the

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-15 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Michael Koch wrote: Hi all, Who works on libbsf-java. The MovingToMain page [1] says it has an issue with using the class sun.tools.javac.Main. Can we use the fix from upstream CVS and add it as patch to this package? When this issue is solved libxalan2-java nad libbsf-java can ve uploaded to main.

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Michael Koch wrote: [...] You are right, its not always a gain. Tom Tromey told me that he is aware of one case where the native library is slower then interpreting the jar. Doing (c) and fixing JIT runtimes can be good, but it ist a hard work too. The Kaffe people put much efforts into this. JIT w

Experimenting with building libxalan2-java with free vm's

2005-03-15 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi all, libxalan2-java is the main blocker atm for moving several java packages to main - I therefore started experimenting with compiling it with the free tools. Although I almost had success - there are some problems left. Maybe one of you has an idea. The main problem is that libxalan2-java need

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Jerry Haltom wrote: Attention Java Maintainers: This Effects You Although I am not a DD here are my comments/questions. This is a recap of an ad-hoc discussion a number of Java maintainers had a few minutes ago in #debian-java concerning our direction with regards to including native GCJ compiled J

Re: Bug#288009: batik 1.5.1 would break fop

2005-03-10 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:22:19PM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: >>fop is currently not in testing although a valid candidate. A "solution" to the problem would be to upgrade batik to 1.5.1 and also to upload a new fop package with an embedded batik librar

Re: Bug#288009: batik 1.5.1 would break fop

2005-03-10 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Michael Koch wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:28:08PM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: Which one to use ? g2d.setStroke( pi.strokeStroke ); ?? As said, I have no knowledge with awt - so if anyone can provide the "right" solution I would prepare a new fop upload with the patch. A batik 1.5.1

Re: Bug#288009: batik 1.5.1 would break fop

2005-03-10 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: I would prefer to just add a patch to fop to make it work with batik 1.5.1 and just depend on batik >= 1.5.1. Putting a second batik copy into fop should be avoided. You are right - there is only one compile error - but I have absolutely no experience with awt progra

Re: Replacing packaged libraries with standard libraries

2005-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Eric, Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi, that was a bit the sense of my question?!.. ;-) I've already identified (+ version + -java): libbatik (for the svg plugin) libxerces libjaxp libcommon-lang librelaxng-datatype The following ones seem to be as well pretty standard (and free!?), but I couldn't identi

Re: Package to contrib or non-free

2005-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:44:48 +0100, Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Hi, I have a question to one of my packages (Jmol, LGPL licensed), I unofficially maintain. Sources: http://debian.wgdd.de/debian/dists/unstable/contrib/source/science/ The package source c

Re: Help on java packaging

2005-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Arnaud, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 08:46:46 +0100, Wolfgang Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] gjdoc is not working in the new kaffe package :'( Also, note that the ant task call the 'javadoc' executable in JAVA_HOME ,[ ant-1.6.2/src/main/org/apac

Help on java packaging

2005-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi all, I started packaging GIS (Geographical Information Systems) Software for the Debian GIS project. As there are no people with good java packaging experience I would like to ask if someone from the debian java packaging project could have a look at my packages. The packages are: jts - java