Re: netcdf uploaded (Re: Package available (was Re: Micro Manager))
On Apr 10, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Mark Longair
> <mark-debianlists@longair.net> wrote:
>> Hi Mathieu,
>>
>> Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Mark !
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Mark Longair
>>> <mark-debianlists@longair.net> wrote:
>> [..]
>>>> NetCDF Java itself also bundles a huge number of jar files in
>>>> the source distribution, but to build the core of NetCDF you
>>>> actually need relatively few dependencies. I made a package
>>>> that builds just the core of NetCDF (i.e. the makeCore ant
>>>> target) and only relies on Debian-packaged dependencies. (The
>>>> NetCDF core is all that bio-formats requires, I believe.) That
>>>> repository is here:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/mhl/libnetcdf-java
>>>
>>> Cool. I'll import that into the debian-med svn if this is ok with you:
>>> svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/netcdf-java
>> [..]
>>>> The repository with my Debian packaging of bio-formats is here:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/mhl/libbio-formats-java
>>>
>>> cool. If this is ok with you I'll import this into debian-med svn at:
>>> svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/bio-formats
>> [..]
>>
>> That's great in both cases - thanks for doing that.
>
> ref:
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/netcdf-java_4.3.8-BETA-1.html
>
> Assuming everyting goes smoothly, I can now move on to bio-formats itself.
Hi Mathieu,
Looking at Mark's repo (mhl/libbio-formats-java) and the patches under http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/bio-formats/trunk/debian/patches/, much of what was necessary was to remove the jars and configure the build for using /usr/share, a source drop, etc. Would it help if we modified the build so there's a global switch (e.g. ant -Ddebian=true) to allow these commits to live in the mainline? (Would the jars be allowed to remain unused, or must they be deleted to adhere to the Debian guidelines?)
Where possible we'd certainly like to make Debian packaging simpler. A new stable release of Bio-Formats (4.4) is planned for the summer which it would be ideal to target, giving us a chance to merge in patches and the bulk of Mark's work (especially having seen some of how he suffered!)
I've CC'd Melissa Linkert, the Bio-Formats lead. Roger Leigh, a (previously non-Java) Debian maintainer who's recently joined the Bio-Formats project, is already subscribed to the list.
Cheers,
~Josh
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