On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Nicholas Kolegraff <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm on board with this. > This has been a common suggestion from more advanced users (and makes > sense). I am exploring how to incorporate packages into the build process, I > don't > want to commit to anything, yet, but plan to take a much deeper dive mid > July.
Some information that might help you: The Debian new maintainers guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html The Debian wiki on how to package Java projects including information on how to package maven-built software: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/Packaging There also is a mailing list for more discussion on problems and questions related to packaging java projects into Debian: http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/ One word of warning: You might run into one issue or another as Java projects usually aren't build in a way that's particularly amenable to turn them into distribution packages right away. However it should help that Mahout is maven built and relies on standard libraries only. Cheers, Isabel
