Re: Bug#801683: ITP: gradle-debian-helper -- Helper tools for building Debian packages with Gradle

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 13.10.2015 15:20, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
>
> * Package name    : gradle-debian-helper
>    Version         : 1.0
>    Upstream Author : Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
> * URL             : http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/gradle-debian-helper.git
> * License         : Apache-2.0
>    Programming Lang: Java
>    Description     : Helper tools for building Debian packages with Gradle
>
> gradle-debian-helper contains helper tools to ease the packaging of Gradle
> based projects in Debian. It consists in:
>
>   * a Gradle plugin resolving the dependencies against the system Maven
>     repository (/usr/share/maven-repo). The resolver uses the same Maven
>     rule files that maven-debian-helper and maven-repo-helper employ
>     (debian/maven.rules, debian/maven.ignoreRules).
>   * a debhelper class detecting Gradle build files, initializing the plugin
>     and running Gradle in offline mode.


if gradle is the next big thing, please make sure that it works with zero as 
well.  It looks like gradle is so slow that it times out on the zero 
architectures.  A simple mode emitting a dot or a line every 15min or so if no 
other output happens would be fine to let the builds finish.

Also, please make sure that your helper is able to skip architecture independent 
bits for arch-only builds.