Re: Package depending on netbeans
Le mercredi 11 novembre 2009 à 13:50 +0530, Onkar Shinde a écrit :
> 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.
OK, thanks for that!
> Ad for Eclipse, there are already three developers working on updating
> the package. It is not an easy task. :-)
In Ubuntu you mean ?
Sylvestre
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