Bug#859957: Fwd: Bug#859957: natbraille: ftbfs without networking

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Alex ARNAUD, on lun. 10 avril 2017 13:25:09 +0200, wrote:
> Le 10/04/2017 à 12:30, Bruno Mascret a écrit :
> > Samuel released the 2.0rc3-4 verison, but there is maybe a problem for
> > the next ones?
> 
> Samuel : Could you tell us why you have an older release of Natbraille into
> Debian ?

Because the newer version needs yet more dependencies, whose freeness
was to be determined, then packaged, etc. I just never got around taking
the time to actually do it. My very little knowledge of Java packaging
doesn't help of course.

Unfortunately discussions about it happened privately in French with
Djidjo, so I can't just show the discussion (that's the problem of
not just always discussing in bug reports). From my notes, I see the
following remaining questions:

- where to download the sources for all the dependencies from
- whether JHALL is available under a DFSG licence.
- the JSON dependency could probably be avoided by disabling the support
  for openoffice, which isn't packaged in Debian any more anyway.

> Do you need help to upgrade NatBraille to the new one ?

Completely. I realize the answer Djidjo was already 2 years ago...

Samuel