Just to clarify the situation a bit... Il giorno mar, 23/09/2008 alle 16.00 +0200, Andreas Tille ha scritto: > This tells you which package version is actually available in Debian. > This is the old version which was prepared by you previousely and > finally uploaded by Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>. I have > no idea how Federico builded the package but I definitely did it not > in a pbuilder environment which makes sure that all build dependencies > are fullfilled. (Just try `apt-cache show pbuilder` to learn about > pbuilder.) I built the package the only way possible at the time, by installing the sun jdk on my machine (inside a pbuilder chroot). That's why the package was uploaded to the contrib section, because it needed non-free software both to build and to run. I tought about using only tools from main for the build but at the time the only way to run it was sun jdk (gjc had problems running it) so it would have been tagged for contrib anyway. > The reason why this was no problem until now is, that autobuilders > only work on packages in main Debian not in contrib and non-free. Exactly. > We are now working on the next version of ImageJ in CVS and I try to avoid > the issues described above by providing proper build dependencies to enable > building ImageJ on any architecture (including autobuilding on i386). The > preparation for the next upload of ImageJ to the Debian package pool > as an installable package is done in the form of fixing the files in > the debian directory inside the SVN until the package build process > finally works. Does this clarify the difference between an upload > of a binary Debian package to the Debian mirror and working on packaging > stuff in SVN? There is no automatism which propagates the SVN stuff > to the Debian package pool. I hope that the package now also runs using a free java environment. having ImageJ in main would be extremely useful. If you have any other questions about the old packaging just ask. But I suppose porting it to build with free tools would not be so difficult. federico -- Federico Di Gregorio http://people.initd.org/fog DISCLAIMER. If I receive a message from you, you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient". 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. In particular, I may quote it on USENET or the WWW. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message.
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