Hello Thomas,
Thank you for the welcome message and your wishes for this project. I hope this contribution can be of great benefit to the Debian and non-Debian community. I also want to salute the java packaging team and hope we get to work together.
As Paul mentioned earlier, we've talked about this and there will be no forking. I apologize for not updating the project description (that's done now). My wish is to reuse javahelper as much as possible and build on top of it. I hope we can work together on building and improving these tools.
I'm eugecm on #debian-clojure if you need to contact me, I'm there 24/7 and you can also contact me via email.
Cheers,
Eugenio