Re: JNotify

["Eric Lavarde - Debian" <deb@zorglub.s.bawue.de>]

Hi,

being relatively new to the world of packaging, I'll be a bit more specific:
- start with reading the New Maintainer's guide, on the devel page given
by Michael, or out of the maint-guide package.
- create an ITP (Intent To Package) on the wnpp "package" (with reportbug).
- CDBS is in deed really nice to easily package a Java library.
- as a basis for your package, I can suggest my packages
libjgoodies-forms-java and libjcalendar-java. They use CDBS and are pretty
straight-forward aka simple to understand.
- once you've packaged the library and can install & remove it without
error or warnings and once it's lintian & linda clean, you can ask for a
sponsor on this list.

If you have questions in the mean time, you are welcome to ask back
questions on this list or on the debian-mentors list. Nevertheless, most
of your questions will already been answered before, either in the Debian
Policy or in the Developer's Reference, so you should consider these 2
documents as your bible/thora/coran ;-).
Check also http://wiki.debian.org/Java and http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/

Hope this helps,
Eric

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:12:18AM +0300, Omry Yadan wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> JNotify (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jnotify/) is a java library
>> that provide file system notification for java applications running on
>> linux and windows, licensed under lgpl.
>>
>> I`d like to get it into Debian, what's the procedure?
>
> Read all the documentation at http://www.debian.org/devel/. Look at some
> other packages. Java libraries preferable. Look at CDBS. Package JNotify.
> Upload it somewhere, e.g. mentors.debian.net. Come back and ask for review
> and upload of the package.
>
> It would be nice to maintain this udner the Debian Java maintainers
> umbrella. When the package is done we can commit the package to our SVN
> and start maintaining from there.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Michael

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Eric de France, d'Allemagne et de Navarre