Re: Upgrading freehep to latest upstream (needed by cdk and probably others)
Hi Andrius,
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 10:18:04AM +0300, merkys@debian.org wrote:
> Some time ago I had attempted packaging new freehep-vectorgraphics, with
> considerable success. However, I dropped the ball and did not upload it.
> I have pushed my packaging to salsa [1].
Thanks a lot for the promising hint.
> There is one issue, though. Old freehep-* JARs are split into multitude
> of source and binary packages, while my packaging uses single source
> package (I find it more convenient than splitting and linking) and
> currently puts all the JARs in one binary package. One of the following
> options has to be chosen:
>
> 1. Have only one binary package. This would have to replace all old
> binary packages with Conflicts+Replaces.
>
> 2. Split JARs to resemble old binary packages. AFAIK, this would require
> epoch (1:) for the new binary packages, as they would come from
> different source package.
>
> I would probably go with the option 2.
I admit I have no strong opinion on this as long as we will get a
feature complete cjk package. Since you also are maintaining cjk would
you volunteer to care for this? This would be really appreciated as
a contribution to our covid-19 effort.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/freehep-vectorgraphics
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