Am 06.09.2015 um 04:34 schrieb dean: > Greetings debian-java, > > I'm an 'amateur' java/debian hacker. My goal is to put together a debian > package for freenet[0] and eventually get it uploaded to the debian > repo(very long term goal). Freenet depends on a few different / old / > obselete pieces of code which will make this project difficult / fun > ;-). The package has been built long ago so i have something to base it > on[1]. Hello dean, welcome to Debian Java. > Firstly freenet depends on bouncycastle 1.52 with stable,testing and > unstable having 1.49 and experimental having 1.51. Is there any way I > can assist getting 1.52 uploaded to debian? Should I file a feature > request bug and work with the maintainer that way? Filing a wishlist bug report against bouncycastle and setting yourself as the owner of that bug is a good way to avoid double work and to inform people you are working on something. It is probably not too hard to use the experimental package as a base and upgrade to 1.52. The time consuming part is to check if all reverse-dependencies still build from source with 1.52 and to fix all those packages which are possibly broken with the latest version. > Secondly package libbcprov-java-doc is supposed to install the api docs > but does not actually contain the the documentation. Should i file a bug > for this too? Indeed this looks like a bug. libbcpg-java-doc does not contain any javadoc either. > Is this as simple as including the javadoc's in the git > repo and building the package? We always build the javadoc from source, so it is a matter of getting debian/rules right. You could try to rebuild the package and figure out why the documentation is missing. I can see there are different install targets which are supposed to move the documentation into the corresponding doc packages. Obviously two of them do not work as expected. > I am not asking for the community to work for me, I am happy to do the > legwork and get involved but I will need some advice, a push in the > right direction and possibly some hand holding. Thanks for your interest in packaging Java software for Debian. Regards, Markus
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