Any news about OpenMRS (Was: openmrs_1.6.1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Misha,

any news from your OpenMRS packaging effort?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:20:40PM -0600, Misha Koshelev wrote:
> > I think this is really a good idea if it simplyfies things.  However, I
> > do not really think that we need to sit and wait until OpenMRS is
> > finally released.  Preparing current prereleases for experimental migth
> > be a good idea to be ready with packaging right in time once OpenMRS
> > will be released officially.
> Agreed
> 
> >> I have done some preliminary testing... some caveats on which perhaps
> >> you could comment (I am cc'ing Ben on this email) at your leisure:
> >> 1) Per recommendation in
> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2010/10/msg00017.html
> >> I am using maven-repo-helper and maven-deb-helper from the developer's PPA:
> >> "You will have more luck by taking the latest versions of
> >> maven-repo-helper and maven-debian-helper at my repository:
> >> https://launchpad.net/~ludovicc/+archive/ppa/";
> >> We would, I understand, have to wait until these made it into unstable
> >> (not sure whether or not by the end of the year is reasonable for
> >> this???)
> >
> > I guess Ludovic will answer this question.
> Still not 100% clear on this unfortunately. But I double checked again
> in my new post to debian-java (thank you very much Ludovic for work on
> the relevant apparent bug in maven-repo-helper).
> 
> >
> >> 2) One package on which we depend, libspring-test-java, is in Debian
> >> _experimental_. Would this mean that our package would then need to go
> >> into experimental as well, leading to, to my understanding (please
> >> correct me if wrong):
> >
> > The best idea in this case is to contact the maintainer of the package
> > in question about the reason why the package remains in experimental.
> > Perhaps there are chances to move to unstable if there are other
> > programs that need this package.  A package in unstable can not depend
> > from a package in experimental.
> Ludovic answered, in this email:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2010/11/msg00028.html
> "About Spring 3: this package is now in experimental, but once Squeeze is
> released, it will move to Unstable then Testing. This means that with
> some luck it will be picked up automatically by the next Ubuntu,
> otherwise it's always possible to file a sync request at Ubuntu and
> manually include the latest package into the Universe repository of
> Ubuntu. The same applies to my packages."
> 
> Perhaps yourself or someone else on the debian-med list has input into
> when such a release of Squeeze could be expected to occur (My
> understanding is that Debian does not have a "fixed" release schedule
> like Ubuntu; but I mean more a ballpark estimate).
> 
> >
> > Kind regards and thanks for your work on OpenMRS
> Thank you for all your help with this packaging business :)
> 
> Yours
> Misha
> 
> >
> >    Andreas.
> >
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