Re: Package depending on netbeans
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le mercredi 11 novembre 2009 à 00:25 +0100, Giovanni Mascellani a
> écrit :
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm working on FreeHEP. I have a sponsor for it (Philpp Hübner), but
>> I've found a few issues he has asked me to clarify on debian-java.
> Good news!
>
>> Some packages in FreeHEP depend on openide-lookup, which in Debian in
>> available in package netbeans-platform. The first problem is that this
>> package in orphaned (and I don't have enough time to adopt it). The
>> second problem is that netbeans-{platform,ide} are in contrib (without
>> any good reason, as it has only dependencies in main, see #531952).
> FYI, there is a bug report on this issue:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490433
>
>> Could be acceptable to do a QA upload for netbeans, in order just to
>> move it in main, so I can depend on it?
> You want to add a dependency on netbeans for FreeHEP ?
> It is a big dependency just one on jar file...
>
> You should consider packaging it independently and fill a bug report
> against netbeans.
>
>> Then I hope that someone, some
>> day will adopt the package and start to maintain it correctly
> Me too. Idem for Eclipse...
Netbeans package in Ubuntu is maintained by Yulia Novozhilova who is
Sun employee. I had asked her (during karmic development) if she would
like to port the package to Debian. The reply I got was that the
Debian maintainer of the package in Debian was not interested in her
offer to help updating the package.
Considering that the package is orphaned now by the maintainer himself
I will ask her again if she wants to adopt the package.
Ad for Eclipse, there are already three developers working on updating
the package. It is not an easy task. :-)
Onkar
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