Re: JAI status?

2010-04-17 Thread Paul Cager
> Hi Francesco, > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine > wrote: >> Is there anyone that analyzed JAI license in order >> to have a possible non-free distribution? Anyone worked in recent times >> about >> that? > > you might want to start here: >

ITP TagSoup - library or application.

2006-11-17 Thread Paul Cager
Hi, I am attempting to package[1] TagSoup[2] and have a question. TagSoup is primarily a library JAR, but it _does_ have a main method and can be used as a standalone program. My question is: should I package it as a library Jar, or as a library Jar + application? a) From the author's d

Request for checking: Java library tagsoup (ITP #359170)

2006-11-18 Thread Paul Cager
Hi, I have packaged the Java TagSoup Jar, and I would very much appreciate it if someone could check what I have done. This is my first Java package from scratch, so it is quite likely I have made a few silly mistakes (although I've tried to follow Java Policy and looked at other Java package

Re: Request for checking: Java library tagsoup (ITP #359170)

2006-11-19 Thread Paul Cager
Marcus, Many thanks for this - exactly what I wanted. I think I have rather heavily cut-and-pasted without understanding all of the underlying details. I'll follow up your ideas below and re-package. Just a couple of questions, as annotated below, if you don't mind... Marcus Better wrote: I

Re: Regarding Java packages

2006-12-30 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eng. Mina Ramses wrote: > I'm only asking if Java packages requested are in the Debian Package > requested corner or is there > another place, and if any guide regarding java-packaging starting guide. if >

Re: Regarding Java packages

2006-12-31 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mina, Thanks for your reply. By the way, replies are normally sent back to the list (debian-java@lists.debian.org) rather than to private emails. You might want to subscribe to the list so that you can see everybody's replies or to check the archives

Request to join Debian Java Packaging Project

2007-01-07 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Please can I apply to join the Java Packaging Project. I've opened an account on alioth ("paulcager-guest"), and I'm subscribed to pkg-java-maintainers and debian-java. A little about myself, by way of introduction... I work as a Java developer

Re: getting search url address from browser by java

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Cager
Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote > Hi Shaji, > > shajiprabhakaran prabhakaran said: >> from:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To, >> All Members, > Debian-java is not a general purpose list for asking Java questions, but a > list to discuss compiling and packaging issues concerning Java packages > under

Comments regarding new BCEL package.

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've packaged the new release (5.2) of BCEL. Would you [debian-java] mind having a look at it to see if it is OK? I've committed the changes in svn (pkg-java/trunk/bcel). URL of dsc: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bcel/bcel_5.2-1.ds

Location of API docs

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Cager
I am updating the BCEL library to the new upstream version. The old version installed the Javadocs into: /usr/share/doc/$package/doc/api Daniel Baumann queried this last night on IRC, and it seems that other (newer) packages (e.g. libxalan2-java-doc) install into /usr/share/doc/$package/api

Re: Changing policy for the Maintainer field

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Cager
Marcus Better wrote: > Hi, > > I suggest we adopt the same scheme used by the Perl team [1]: > Maintainer = the main _person_ responsible for the package > Uploaders = the team mailing list + members who actually care for the > package (who have touched it in the past, for example). > Wo

checkstyle Java library - binary package name

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Cager
Regarding the packaging of the new upstream version of checkstyle. As it is a library, should I rename the binary package to libcheckstyle-java, or would this cause far too many problems? Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Debian Java checkstyle package.

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Cager
Hi Arnaud, Michael, and Wolfgang. I am intending to package the new upstream version of checkstyle, and as you are all listed as co-maintainers of this package I thought I would just check with you first. Are you happy for me to continue with this packaging, or would you prefer to do it yourselves

Re: Changing policy for the Maintainer field

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Cager
>> Stefan hasn't retired. > > I take his statement to mean that he has stopped maintaining those > packages, > and no longer wishes to be a co-maintainer. > >> but just does not have the time at the moment. When I was preparing a new upload of BCEL I asked Stefan if he would like me to remove his

Re: Location of API docs

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Cager
Marcus Better wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: >> Assuming that the doc is installed in /usr/share/doc/libfoo-java/api, >> a reference to a class Bar should point to ../../libbar-java/api. Not >> yet sure how to find the location for this reference > > I seem to remember that javadoc can be given a

Re: Location of API docs

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Cager
Michael Koch wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:19:31PM +0000, Paul Cager wrote: >> Marcus Better wrote: >>> Matthias Klose wrote: >>>> Assuming that the doc is installed in /usr/share/doc/libfoo-java/api, >>>> a reference to a class Bar should point t

gjdoc and "-link" option

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Cager
I'm having a problem with gjdoc - it doesn't seem to act upon the "-link" parameter when linking to classpath-doc. Sun JDK 1.5 works as I would expect. I'm using this test Java source file (test1/JDocTest.java): package test1; public class JDocTest { public String x() { retur

Re: Location of API docs

2007-01-16 Thread Paul Cager
Marcus Better wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: >> Assuming that the doc is installed in /usr/share/doc/libfoo-java/api, >> a reference to a class Bar should point to ../../libbar-java/api. Not >> yet sure how to find the location for this reference > > I seem to remember that javadoc can be given a

Bug#408584: RFP: javatar -- Java library for accessing to TAR files

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: javatar Version : 2.5 Upstream Author : Tim Endres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.trustice.com/java/tar/index.shtml * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: Java Description : This Java librar

Re: Which class in which package

2007-02-05 Thread Paul Cager
On Fri, February 2, 2007 10:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Koch schrieb: >> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:05:40PM +0100, gerhard oettl wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> Is there a standard (or any) way to find out which java class is in >>> which non installed debian package to know whats to inst

Re: looking for a mentor/advocate for jedit.deb

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Cager
Alan Ezust wrote: > Hi - I'm a project admin for jedit (www.jedit.org). > > I don't know any other victoria, BC based debian developers, so I was > hoping > to hook up with another java package maintainer, to get help with the > packaging and releasing of the debian package for jedit. Is anyone on

Re: looking for a mentor/advocate for jedit.deb

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Cager
Alan Ezust wrote: > > I've seen the ".deb" on your site. Are the package sources (.dsc, >> .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz) available for download anywhere? > > > > We don't have .dsc files, .diff.gz files or .orig.tar.gz files yet. > For 4.3pre9, we use this: > > https://sourceforge.net/project/sho

Re: Bug#412716: Request upgrade of ant package to 1.7.x from 1.6.x

2007-02-28 Thread Paul Cager
On Wed, February 28, 2007 12:09 pm, Marcus Better wrote: > > Ant seems to need some attention also with respect to bug triaging... > > Marcus I'll do a quick scan this weekend and see what can be progressed if no-one else stakes a claim. Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

New JavaCC package.

2007-02-28 Thread Paul Cager
olicy (and lintian) * Created watch file * Split into separate "-doc" binary package * Added a doc-base * Converted diff.gz patches into dpatch format -- Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:34:45 + The package is at http://mentors.debian.net/debi

Your Debian ITP for the Java forehead package

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Cager
Aldous, I am interested in a Debian version of the "forehead" Java library, and I noticed your ITP for it (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344112). I was just wondering how it was going, and if you had an idea of when it is likely to be completed? Or, if you no longer have the ti

Bug#413751: RFP: slf4j -- The Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J)

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: slf4j Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : * URL : http://www.slf4j.org/ * License : permissive X11 type license Programming Lang: Java Description : The Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) is a simple f

The type java.lang.Object cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Cager
Can anyone shed any light on this error message, please? Google hasn't turned up too much of relevance. compile: [javac] Compiling 15 source files to /tmp/buildd/tagsoup-1.0.4/build [javac] -- [javac] 1. ERROR in /tmp/buildd/tagsoup-1.0.4/src/java/org/ccil/cowan/tagsoup/Attribu

Re: The type java.lang.Object cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

2007-03-22 Thread Paul Cager
On Wed, March 14, 2007 11:33 am, Marcus Better wrote: > Paul Cager wrote: >> [javac] The type java.lang.Object cannot be resolved. > > My sponsor had this one too. He was building in a 32-bit environment on > amd64, and apparently gcj has some problems with this. Building on

TagSoup - new upstream files, no license.

2007-03-24 Thread Paul Cager
Is the author's statement below sufficient to allow the inclusion of the files in Debian? Or should I ask for something more explicit? Thanks, Paul --- Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tatu, > > I am packaging TagSoup version 1.1 for Debian and I > notice

ITP plexus-utils

2007-03-25 Thread Paul Cager
retitle 413523 ITP: plexus-utils -- common utilities for the Plexus framework owner 413523 ! thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ITP plexus-classworlds

2007-03-25 Thread Paul Cager
retitle 413528 ITP: plexus-classworlds -- part of the Plexus framework owner 413528 ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ITP plexus-interactivity

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Cager
rename 413525 ITP: plexus-interactivity -- interactivity handler for the Plexus framework owner 413525 ! thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maven2 for Debian

2007-03-28 Thread Paul Cager
Marcus Better wrote: > A Debian user (building stuff for > their own use) would expect Maven to work the same as it does elsewhere. > > How about this mini-plan for packaging Maven: > > Step 1. Package Maven for "use case 1" only, i.e., targetted for regular > users, with functionality identical

RFP 413518 Wagon package - granularity

2007-03-28 Thread Paul Cager
The maven2 distribution contains about 7 wagon jars (wagon-file, wagon-http-shared etc). What would be the best way to package this: A) Seven source packages (and hence seven binary packages). B) One source package generating seven binary packages. C) One source package generating one binary

Re: RFP 413518 Wagon package - granularity

2007-03-29 Thread Paul Cager
Michael Koch wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:29:35PM +0100, Paul Cager wrote: >> The maven2 distribution contains about 7 wagon jars (wagon-file, >> wagon-http-shared etc). What would be the best way to package this: >> >> A) Seven source packages (and hence sev

Re: Bug#413518: RFP 413518 Wagon package - granularity

2007-03-29 Thread Paul Cager
Marcus Better wrote: > Paul Cager wrote: >> The maven2 distribution contains about 7 wagon jars (wagon-file, >> wagon-http-shared etc). What would be the best way to package this: > > I suggest one source file and several binary packages. This is because > (a) the top-l

Questions about plexus-container-default

2007-04-03 Thread Paul Cager
Hi Trygve, A couple of days ago on #debian-java you kindly offered to help if I hit any problems with the packaging of Plexus for Maven2. Would you have time for a couple of questions about plexus-container-default? ** src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/component/composition/DefaultComponentCompos

Plexus-container-default and ComponentValueSetter.java

2007-04-14 Thread Paul Cager
Hi Kenny, I'm packaging plexus-container-default for Debian and I wondered if I could ask a question about a class you wrote. It is org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.converters.ComponentValueSetter There doesn't seem to be any license information in the file, just /* * Copyright (c) 2

Rename JTA?

2007-04-22 Thread Paul Cager
I am preparing a new upload of JTA to fix some bugs. The source package is "jta" and the binary package is "jta". Should I change the binary package to be "libjta-java", or leave it alone? * Jta has no reverse dependencies. * I'll be adding a "-doc" binary package, so it will end up in the

Re: Rename JTA?

2007-04-22 Thread Paul Cager
Michael Koch wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:55:28PM +0100, Paul Cager wrote: >> I am preparing a new upload of JTA to fix some bugs. >> >> The source package is "jta" and the binary package is "jta". Should I >> change the binary package to be &

Re: Questions about plexus-container-default

2007-04-26 Thread Paul Cager
Hi Trygve (and anyone else on the list with commit access to Plexus!) I was just wondering if I could remind you about this Plexus licensing problem. Sorry to hassle you, but it would be quite nice to be able to get this uploaded to Debian. Thanks, Paul Paul Cager wrote: > Hi Trygve, >

Re: Bug#413518: RFP 413518 Wagon package - granularity

2007-04-26 Thread Paul Cager
Marcus Better wrote: > Paul Cager wrote: >> The maven2 distribution contains about 7 wagon jars (wagon-file, >> wagon-http-shared etc). What would be the best way to package this: > > I suggest one source file and several binary packages. This is because > (a) the top-l

Re: Questions about plexus-container-default

2007-04-27 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, April 26, 2007 8:17 am, Paul Cager wrote: >> Hi Trygve, >> >> A couple of days ago on #debian-java you kindly offered to help if I hit >> any problems with the packaging of Plexus for Maven2. Would you have >> time >> for a couple of questions abo

Bug#421626: ITP: modello -- a Data Model toolkit in use by the Maven 2 Project

2007-04-30 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: modello Version : latest Upstream Author : Brett Porter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL : http://modello.codehaus.org * License : http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-licen

Re: java dependency substvars and native compilation

2007-05-02 Thread Paul Cager
Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Wed May 02 16:54, Michael Koch wrote: >> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:15:39PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: >>> On Wed May 02 15:57, Michael Koch wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:58:46PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > Two subjects to this mail. Firstly, I had a

Re: java dependency substvars and native compilation

2007-05-03 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, May 3, 2007 12:14 am, Matthew Johnson wrote: > > It's a tricky one. A debhelper command in debian/rules is exactly where > it _ought_ to be. I agree; I'm just not sure how feasible it is to make it sufficiently robust for all cases. On the other hand quite a large proportion of Java packa

A Java Packaging Wishlist

2007-05-21 Thread Paul Cager
Late-night, random thoughts about what would be useful for us Debian Java packagers. Any comments? dh_installjars == A new debhelper command: * Installs Jars into usr/share/java directory, adding correct version number suffix (as parsed from the changelog). * Adds required symlink

Re: A Java Packaging Wishlist

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Cager
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will some more: > > - Support Maven builds and be able to read dependencies from the maven > pom.xml file and translate them to the debian control file entries for > dependencies and run dependencies. The maven pom certainly contains lots of the information you need t

Getting Maven Into Main - What Next?

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Cager
Now that we are making progress with packaging Maven's Build-Dependencies, I'm beginning to wonder what happens next. I've noticed from the JavaCC packaging that it seems to be all right to include a "bootstrap jar" in the upstream source. Is this right? I guess to be valid: * When building the

Re: Getting Maven Into Main - What Next?

2007-05-26 Thread Paul Cager
Manfred Moser wrote: [... snip some very useful information ...] > I hope this helps a bit. Yes, it certainly does, and thank you. I'll have a good read of it later today when I'm more awake! manfred Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Getting Maven Into Main - What Next?

2007-05-26 Thread Paul Cager
Manfred Moser wrote: On Friday May 25 2007, Paul Cager wrote: Now that we are making progress with packaging Maven's .. Hi Paul and all, Just fyi I am an active Maven and long time Debian/Ubuntu user with very little packaging know how I have practically no experience with Maven

Re: Getting Maven Into Main - What Next?

2007-05-26 Thread Paul Cager
Paul Cager wrote: This is the "desert island test" [1], No it isn't. The Desert Island Test is something quite different, to do with the freeness of the upstream license. Please ignore this bit, as I hadn't got my brain in gear! The Debian prohibition against download

Re: Getting Maven Into Main - What Next?

2007-05-26 Thread Paul Cager
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Cager: > >> Now that we are making progress with packaging Maven's >> Build-Dependencies, I'm beginning to wonder what happens next. I've >> noticed from the JavaCC packaging that it seems to be all right to >> include

Re: Getting Maven Into Main - What Next?

2007-05-26 Thread Paul Cager
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Cager: > >> Now that we are making progress with packaging Maven's >> Build-Dependencies, I'm beginning to wonder what happens next. I've >> noticed from the JavaCC packaging that it seems to be all right to >> include

Bug#426219: ITP: plexus-component-factories -- Plexus factories for bsh, ant components etc

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-component-factories Version : svn Upstream Author : Plexus Authors * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Descr

Bug#426226: ITP: plexus-compiler -- Interface to compilers within Plexus

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-compiler Version : svn Upstream Author : Plexus Authors * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Description : Interf

Bug#426227: ITP: plexus-velocity -- The Plexus Velocity Component

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-velocity Version : svn Upstream Author : Plexus Authors * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Description : The

Bug#426228: ITP: plexus-digest -- a component of maven2

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-digest Version : svn Upstream Author : Plexus Developers * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Description : a com

Re: RFS: various packages

2007-05-29 Thread Paul Cager
On Tue, May 29, 2007 2:32 pm, Matthew Johnson wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for sponsors for various packages, but none of the DDs I > know are happy about uploading Java packages. So, is there anyone on > this list who could review and upload some Java packages for me. > [...] > Thanks in advance, > >

Re: RFS: various packages

2007-05-29 Thread Paul Cager
Matthew Johnson wrote: > Well, I've several small (only a few classes) libraries with different > purposes. I didn't think it was worth a separate source package for > each, therefore there isn't really an overall purpose for the library as > a whole. The _binary_ packages do have more appropriate

Bug#428575: ITP: plexus-i18n -- Plexus internationalisation package.

2007-06-12 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-i18n Version : 1.0-beta-6 Upstream Author : Plexus Developers * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache Programming Lang: Java Description :

Bug#428643: ITP: maven-ant-helper -- package helper scripts for building Maven components with ant

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: maven-ant-helper Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Trygve Laugstøl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-java/trunk/maven-ant-helper * License

Re: GNU/Linux Java Policy and Packaging

2007-06-16 Thread Paul Cager
Petteri Räty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: >> Quoting Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Tom Marble wrote: Packaging - >>> I think we need to add: >>> >>> * Library ABI handling and support for parallel installation of multiple >>> versions (as discussed in another

Re: Java buildd service

2007-07-10 Thread Paul Cager
Michael Koch wrote: > Hello list, > > > I have setup a local buildd locally to be able to testbuild all packages > maintained by the Debian Java Maintainers. In the first test builds only > the usual suspects failed which have already filed FTBFS bugs in the > BTS. > > I would like to provide th

Re: [ITA] Turkey: looking for a sponsor

2007-08-03 Thread Paul Cager
Cesare Tirabassi wrote: > Hello, > > I have patched turkey to solve an ftbfs in Ubuntu gutsy (thanks > especially to the work of Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz) and made some > general update and clean up; I attach the patch to this email. > I was told by a Debian QA person that since turkey is curren

Re: RFC/RFS: fetchexc (Fetches email from Microsoft Exchange servers)

2007-08-11 Thread Paul Cager
Ted Percival wrote: > Hi folks. > > I have packaged a program called FetchExc. It is used for retrieving > email from Microsoft Exchange servers and forwarding them to an SMTP > server or mbox store. > > I wonder if anyone would be willing to take a look at the packaging and > perhaps even spo

Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur

2007-08-22 Thread Paul Cager
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On 8/22/07, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now, to the next question. What do I do for >> maven built packages? Do I wait for maven to enter Debian first? Or is >> there some other way out? > > You can help having Maven in Debian :-D > > If you can build excal

Re: About Maven

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, August 23, 2007 9:01 am, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi Paul, > > First, many thanks for your work on Maven and I'm very sorry that I > took that mutch time to review your work. > > I'd like to ask you about the ITP of maven: #323050 > It seems to be blocked by: > o #426219: ITP: plexus-compone

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, August 23, 2007 8:44 am, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On 8/22/07, Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> There is also what I hope will eventually become the official Maven2 >> package: >> >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/ma

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, August 23, 2007 12:40 pm, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On 8/23/07, Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, August 23, 2007 8:44 am, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > [...] > A good starting point, but we'll have to prevent mvn to download also > updates! so I think t

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, August 23, 2007 1:36 pm, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > [...] > I would like to help out in some way; at least in testing things out! That would be great. > And can we just build them using > a custom build.xml written for ant? That's the approach I've taken for some of Maven's build-depends - a

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, August 23, 2007 3:45 pm, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > But consider the maven-resources plugin. The source jar has the > following: > > org/apache/maven/plugin/resources/util/ > org/apache/maven/plugin/resources/PropertyUtils.java > org/apache/maven/plugin/resources/ReflectionProperties.java > o

Re: Maven in Debian [was: Re: Reg. Apache Excalibur]

2007-08-24 Thread Paul Cager
On Fri, August 24, 2007 10:27 am, Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > For anything requiring Maven to build you can use the maven-ant-helper > package that is in the pkg-java Subversion repository. It includes an > Ant build.xml that mimics the normal Maven build process. > > The problem with that build.xml i

javahelper (Was "Re: Bug#441403: Incorrect versioned symlink")

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Cager
Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Package: libjsch-java > Version: 0.1.34-1 > Severity: serious > > Hi! > > I just observed that the symlink provided in libjsch-java points to > the old version, and this causes many problems. Please consider fixing > it. I am unable to contribute a patch because I am unable

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Cager
Regarding the email below, how about an automated mass update of the pkg-java trunk to convert the old XS-Vcs entries into new Vcs ones? Or possibly even add in missing ones. That way packages would be "fixed" when they are next uploaded. Terrible idea? Original Message Subject

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Cager
Varun Hiremath wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Tue, 30 Oct, 2007 at 08:05:21AM +0100, Michael Koch wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:09:39AM +0000, Paul Cager wrote: >>> Regarding the email below, how about an automated mass update of the >>> pkg-java trunk to co

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Cager
On Tue, October 30, 2007 09:36, Marcus Better wrote: > Paul Cager wrote: >> Regarding the email below, how about an automated mass update of the >> pkg-java trunk to convert the old XS-Vcs entries into new Vcs ones? > > I just did the XS prefix removal in svn (with a littl

Re: Jetty6 packaging

2007-11-08 Thread Paul Cager
Hi Greg, Sorry it has taken so long for you to get a reply to your email - I think we have all been waiting for someone more knowledgeable to answer. Michael Koch has been working on Jetty 5 recently, but I know he has been away for a little while. I’m not sure if he has investigated Jetty 6. I’v

Re: Jetty6 packaging

2007-11-08 Thread Paul Cager
Greg Wilkins wrote: > Paul Cager wrote: >> On Thu, November 8, 2007 09:33, Greg Wilkins wrote: >>> The ant task then goes on to run dpkg-buildpackage and >>> dpkg-deb in order to create libjetty6-java and jetty6 >>> packages. >> These are quite low-leve

Re: javacc help needed

2007-11-11 Thread Paul Cager
Michael Koch wrote: > Hello, > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:49:29AM +0900, Sanghyeon Seo wrote: >> In the original modifed file, ParseException extends CSSException >> which extends RuntimeException, so it is an unchecked exception. But >> unmodifed ParseException extends Exception by default, which

Re: Joining the team

2007-11-14 Thread Paul Cager
Tiago Saboga wrote: > Hi! > > I have finished the packaging of omegat [1] and libhtmlparser-java [2] > and I think it would be better to join the java packaging team. What's > the way to go? Should I just upload to mentors and ask here for a > sponsor? > > Thanks, > > Tiago Saboga. > > [1] - ht

Re: maven2 2.0.8-1 fails to work at all.

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Cager
Fred Cooke wrote: > Hi, this is the first time in 5 years of using debian i have had any > issues that i couldnt solve, so I'm a little hesitant to post about it > really. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mvn > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to > access field org.codehaus.p

Re: maven2 2.0.8-1 fails to work at all.

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Cager
Paul Cager wrote: > Fred Cooke wrote: >> Hi, this is the first time in 5 years of using debian i have had any >> issues that i couldnt solve, so I'm a little hesitant to post about it >> really. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mvn >> Exception in thread &

Using Maven to build Debian packages

2008-04-14 Thread Paul Cager
I've been thinking about how we could use Maven within Debian package builds. Whichever way we go, I guess we'll need to package a lot of Maven's run-time dependencies - Plexus components, Maven plugins etc. (I've attached a list of what gets downloaded when running Maven against a simple "Hello Wo

Moving Freemarker back to main, and the servlet-api

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Cager
I would find it very useful if we could find a way to move freemarker back into main. As I understand it freemarker was moved to contrib because: * freemarker now needs version 2.1 of the JSP specification [servlet 2.5] (It uses the javax.el package etc.) * We have not yet packaged a vers

Re: Moving Freemarker back to main, and the servlet-api

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Cager
Marcus Better wrote: > Paul Cager wrote: >> So I propose we create a new package, libservlet2.5-java, using the >> Tomcat 6 source code (I realise Tomcat 6 isn't in Debian yet). [...] > Anyway it would be good not to add another cloned source package once we > package

Re: Automatic build/pdebuild with sun-java-jdk

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Cager
Benjamin Mesing wrote: Hello, my package (umlet - not yet in archive) does not build with gcj due to using com.sun.tools.javac.Main. Therefore I am build-depending on sun-java6-jdk. However, I can't get an automatic build in a clean environment working, because sun-java6-jdk does not install i

Re: Moving Freemarker back to main, and the servlet-api

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Cager
Paul Cager wrote: So I propose we create a new package, libservlet2.5-java, using the Tomcat 6 source code (I realise Tomcat 6 isn't in Debian yet). What should we do about the servlet-api.jar symlink? Currently /usr/share/java looks like: servlet-2.3.jar servlet-api-2.

Re: Debian package of geronimo

2008-05-18 Thread Paul Cager
Jonas Granvik wrote: > Hi, > > Was just trying to get Geronimo running on a debian machine, but noticed > that there was no ready made package to debian. Is there any particular > reason for this, or has it just not got done yet? > > It would be really nice if there would be a ready made package

Re: openfire debian package

2008-06-13 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, June 12, 2008 19:14, Yann Rouillard wrote: > Hi > > I am writing to this list because I am currently trying to make a debian > package for openfire [1], a jabber server written java, for which a RFP > has already been filed [2]. > > I would like to make this package suitable for inclusion i

Re: Developing with Java on Debian

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Cager
On Mon, June 30, 2008 14:26, Matthew Johnson wrote: > > Sufficiently clever build systems should propagate the build CLASSPATH > to the manifest automatically anyway. I'm a bit confused by this. Doesn't that assume that the build and runtime classpaths are identical? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian featuring http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/ ?

2008-10-06 Thread Paul Cager
Steffen Moeller wrote: > Hello, > > I know I should make this a RFP, but I am a bit lost > about what the perfect package name would > possibly be. > > A program that I am interested to package comes > with the jimi.jar. Is there a way to have this > Java Image I/O Debianised? > > Many thanks an