Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-11 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC
Hans-Christoph Steiner writes: > Third party package repositories are a thing, like Ubuntu PPAs, aptly, > JFrog Debian Repositories, etc. Unfortunately, due to Debian Apt's > design, that means giving root access to each repository (package > pre-install/remove/etc scripts are run as root). I

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-10 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 08/12/2020 à 12:24, Pirate Praveen a écrit : > I maintain gitlab using https://wiki.debian.org/FastTrack > > gitlab has a long dependency tree and very fast release cycle. It gets > new releases every month and security updates are given only for 3 months. > > If more people find this

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-08 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Emmanuel Bourg: Le 07/12/2020 à 11:38, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) a écrit : Keep the suggestions coming, this is super useful! Another point to keep in mind, if you build and distribute your own .deb or Flatpak package you keep the control on the release schedule. Using jdeb you could

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-08 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 21:55, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 07/12/2020 à 11:38, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) a écrit : Keep the suggestions coming, this is super useful! Another point to keep in mind, if you build and distribute your own .deb or Flatpak package you keep the control on the

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-07 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 07/12/2020 à 15:33, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > Does maven-debian-helper handle multi-module projects (where some of > the modules depend on some of the other modules to be built as part > of the project) nowadays? That was the biggest problem, back when I > tried to package something… Yes it

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-07 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 07/12/2020 à 11:38, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) a écrit : > Keep the suggestions coming, this is super useful! Another point to keep in mind, if you build and distribute your own .deb or Flatpak package you keep the control on the release schedule. Using jdeb you could publish your first package

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-07 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 8:19 PM Markus Koschany wrote: > > Am Montag, den 07.12.2020, 15:33 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > > On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Markus Koschany wrote: > > > > > Ideally the Butterfly source code is included in src:openrefine and Maven > > > would > > > do the rest. > > > > Does

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-07 Thread Markus Koschany
Am Montag, den 07.12.2020, 15:33 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Markus Koschany wrote: > > > Ideally the Butterfly source code is included in src:openrefine and Maven > > would > > do the rest. > > Does maven-debian-helper handle multi-module projects (where some of > the

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-07 Thread Sam Kuper
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 02:26:01PM +0100, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > Third party package repositories are a thing, like Ubuntu PPAs, aptly, > JFrog Debian Repositories, etc. Unfortunately, due to Debian Apt's > design, that means giving root access to each repository (package >

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Markus Koschany wrote: > Ideally the Butterfly source code is included in src:openrefine and Maven > would > do the rest. Does maven-debian-helper handle multi-module projects (where some of the modules depend on some of the other modules to be built as part of the project)

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-07 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Antonin Delpeuch (lists): Hi Emmanuel, On 06/12/2020 22:18, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Did you consider building a .deb package with jdeb [1] ? It's an alternative that involves much less work than uploading to the Debian repository. For a complex and very specialized software like OpenRefine

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-07 Thread Markus Koschany
Am Sonntag, den 06.12.2020, 21:46 +0100 schrieb Antonin Delpeuch (lists): [...] > How important is it that all dependencies are packaged independently? > Butterfly is a framework that has not been maintained for years, and we > are not aware of any other users beyond OpenRefine. We would love to >

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-07 Thread Antonin Delpeuch (lists)
Hi Emmanuel, On 06/12/2020 22:18, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > Did you consider building a .deb package with jdeb [1] ? It's an > alternative that involves much less work than uploading to the Debian > repository. For a complex and very specialized software like OpenRefine > that might be more

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-06 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 06/12/2020 à 21:46, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) a écrit : > Ok! I would personally love to be able to get involved, but I think it > is pretty clear that it would be pretty risky to start such a big > packaging project on my own with no prior experience. So I'll definitely > follow up offlist.

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-06 Thread Antonin Delpeuch (lists)
Hi Markus, On 05/12/2020 23:04, Markus Koschany wrote: > I had to do a quick analysis for OpenRefine to give you a proper answer. In > short OpenRefine is a complex project with many dependencies. It is most > likely > suitable for Debian main and some work to package it for Debian is required.

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 6:04 PM Antonin Delpeuch (lists) wrote: > Very interesting! I like the clarity of this page, that is exactly the > sort of service we need. Surely there must be many other companies > offering similar services, no? I am surprised this one was so hard to find. There are

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-05 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi Antonin, Am Freitag, den 04.12.2020, 21:46 +0100 schrieb Antonin Delpeuch (lists): [...] > It is not clear to me to what extent a Debian packaging project lends > itself to fixed-term contracting, since maintaining the package will > require continued work as we release new versions. Perhaps

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-05 Thread Antonin Delpeuch (lists)
On 05/12/2020 03:25, Sam Kuper wrote: > Here is Freexian's web page about its packaging services and fee > structure. (Note: this is not an endorsement. I have no relationship > with Freexian.) > > https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-packaging.html > Very interesting! I like the

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-05 Thread Antonin Delpeuch (lists)
On 05/12/2020 04:30, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:12 PM Antonin Delpeuch (lists) wrote: > >> I am looking for a consultant to help package Java software for Debian. >> I wonder if you maintain a directory of developers who would be able to >> work on this as contractors? >> >> I

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:12 PM Antonin Delpeuch (lists) wrote: > I am looking for a consultant to help package Java software for Debian. > I wonder if you maintain a directory of developers who would be able to > work on this as contractors? > > I have found this general list: > >

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-04 Thread Sam Kuper
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 09:46:56PM +0100, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) wrote: > It is not clear to me to what extent a Debian packaging project lends > itself to fixed-term contracting, since maintaining the package will > require continued work as we release new versions. Perhaps the project > could

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-04 Thread Antonin Delpeuch (lists)
Hi Markus, Great! So the project in question is OpenRefine: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine So far we only distribute a Linux package as a .tar.gz that people can just extract and run (assuming they have Java installed). We ship all the jars of our dependencies there. The project is

Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

2020-12-04 Thread Markus Koschany
Hello Antonin, Am Freitag, den 04.12.2020, 17:54 +0100 schrieb Antonin Delpeuch (lists): > Hello, > > I am looking for a consultant to help package Java software for Debian. > I wonder if you maintain a directory of developers who would be able to > work on this as contractors? > > I have found