Bug#643980: ITP: felix-osgi-foundation -- Java OSGi interfaces - Foundation Execution

["Damien Raude-Morvan" <drazzib@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Damien Raude-Morvan" <drazzib@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-java@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : felix-osgi-foundation
  Version         : 1.2.0
  Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation / OSGi Alliance
* URL             : http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-osgi-core.html
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description     : Java OSGi interfaces - Foundation Execution Environment

 OSGi, for Open Services Gateway initiative framework, is a module system and
 service platform for the Java programming language.
 .
 This package contains OSGi Foundation Execution Environment
 for Release 4 Version 4.2.
 This provide Java interfaces for javax.microedition package (J2ME) and
 java.net/java.lang/java.io/java.util packages (J2SE).
 .
 The Apache Felix OSGi Foundation EE sub-project simply repackages the
 standard OSGi Foundation EE API packages provided by the OSGi Alliance
 into a Maven module. There is no runtime dependencies between this package
 and Felix Framework itself, so that this library can be used without Felix.


Right now, Felix Framework packages in Debian depends on libequinox-osgi-java 
(Eclipse Equinox OSGi framework) in order to just have OSGi simple interfaces. 
Since we have netbeans depending on felix-framework, then Netbeans source 
package actually depends on Eclipse... [1]

By providing those felix-osgi-* packages, my goal is to have a separate, 
simplier, dependency chains for Netbeans.

[1] http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=netbeans

Chers,
-- 
Damien - Debian Developper
http://wiki.debian.org/DamienRaudeMorvan