Sbt packaging (Was: Bug#873341: Any news for this issue?)
Hi Frédéric,
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:41:09AM +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote:
> I'm still out of time at the moment on the sbt front.
> The new packaging way I was investigating is idle at the moment.
Thanks for the update.
> The other way I was thinking of is to push things in non-free, but then
> I'm not sure we could drag things back in main and also I think people
> relying on sbt would prefer it to be available in main.
> What's your opinion on this ?
I do not think we should try a detour via non-free if the code is
actually free.
> I've spend so much time on this already, and I wouldn't want it to be
> useless, so I'm still willing to pursue that effort, but I'll have to
> wait some time to have some spare time again.
Any volunteer to work on this. I think there quite some amount of
interesting Free Software out there that needs sbt.
> I'll have to ask for removal of that set of packages for now as it's
> incomplete as it is right now and the packaging not compliant with
> Debian's policy.
Please hold on before you ask for removal of source package files. New
queue processing is quite slow currently. It would be better to fix the
issues - and if you be a bit more verbose what exactly is not policy
compliant I'd colunteer to have a look.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> On Fri, 25 May 2018 13:33:05 +0200, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I once libscala-pickling-java and I wonder whether I could provide any
> > help. I'd love to finalise the project that made me stumbling about sbt
> > last year.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
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> > http://fam-tille.de
> >
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