Re: FreeShim packaging
Am Freitag, 29. April 2011, 10:28:02 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:08:49AM +0200, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > Came across FreeShim.
> >
> > It is stated that packages exist for Debian and Ubuntu
> >
> > http://freeshim.org/download/
> >
> > It lists an Ubuntu PPA and corresponding packages.
>
> Yes.
>
> > I can't seem to find the package in Debian.
>
> There is no such package in Debian - the provided package in PPA might
> work (or not - I have not tested, but I expect it wor work).
>
> > What confuses me is the fact that there is a Debian-med team on launchpad
> > which seems to operate a Debian-med PPA (personal package archive)
>
> Well, you probably can register such a PPA and I vaguely remember that
> somebody said he would like to do this. I'm sorry, but I'm a bit PPA
> ignorant.
>
> > How is this team related to Debian-med and this the place to get Debian
> > to Ubuntu converted packages ?
>
> I have no problem with this if it helps - but it should definitely be
> documented in some reasonable place.
>
> > In the Debian-med taks pages there it is listed as unofficial package
> > https://launchpad.net/~rufustfirefly/+archive/ppa/+buildjob/2489799/+file
> > s/shim_0.1.1-1ubuntu2~maverick_all.deb
>
> Yes, that's correct. This is our way to try to help users if we are
> behind the packaging efforts but have not finished.
>
> > It seems there were some packaging issues with the prior version.
> > as indicated here :
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2011/01/msg00007.html
> >
> > Have those been solved ? Any clarification is appreciated.
>
> We are trapped with Java-Maven issues. The shim package on PPA builds
> with network connection and downloads 40MB compressed java stuff from
> the net when building. This is a no go for Debian packages. We need to
> sort out all the Java dependency mess. From a quick overlook several
> package dependencies are there - but definitely not all. (Do you
> remember Mayam - it is quite the same :-()
>
> So the answer is: If there is a Java educated volunteer who works on
> this stuff it might speed up things drastically. Otherwise I'm working
> on it slowly because I can not work on all this stuff exclusively.
Thanks for your input,
Best regards,
Sebasitan Hilbert
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