Bug#859957: Fwd: Bug#859957: natbraille: ftbfs without networking
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 21:00:53 +0200 Samuel Thibault
<sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> 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
is someone working on this?
> - whether JHALL is available under a DFSG licence.
well,
here
https://sourceforge.net/p/freemind/discussion/22102/thread/31ad7b83/ it
says jhall.jar is shipped by JavaHelp2 which is already in Debian:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/javahelp2
Or do i get something wrong here?
> - 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
>
Simon
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