Re: Package depending on netbeans
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> wrote:
> 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 ?
No. I meant Debian. http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/eclipse.git
Onkar
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