Re: Libcolt-free accepted, lets see how far we can get with it (first package: libdsol1-java)
Hi Andreas,
Mostly good news. I tested libcolt-free-java and Acacia appears to work
exactly as before, so I am 99% sure that libdsol1-java is perfectly
happy with the modified libcolt and all dependent packages can go into
main. Well done!
I've pushed a small change to GIT for libcolt-free. See if you agree
with my renaming the .jar file.
I'll also push an updated acacia package.
The bad news is I can't get libdsol 1.6.10 to compile at all. I'm not
sure what they changed (major refactoring seems to have been done for
this supposedly minor version!) or why, but I'm guessing it requires
specific updated dependencies that I don't have on Ubuntu 14.04.
Given that my only motivation in packaging it was to support Acacia,
which now works nicely, I don't want to attempt to port Acacia to
libdsol2-java at this point. I'm sticking to the working libdsol1
version that I have.
Cheers,
TIM
On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 08:35 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think after about three years of trying we finally might be able to
> free those projects depending from libcolt-java. The new
> libcolt-free-java was created by simply removing the non-free code[2].
> So with some luck that this code is not really used (first tests are
> promising for all packages currently inside Debian) we can move these
> packages to main. In case the removed code might be needed the option
> to package freehep jaida which is the (free!) successor of the project
> the non-free code was derived from.
>
> The first target I was now trying to tackle is libdsol1-java which was
> injected into SVN[3] by Tim. However this project has several problems
> which are not actually related to libcolt. Tim, could you please help
> sorting this out?
>
> 1. The debian/get-orig-source.sh file was pointing to a CVS which does
> not seem to exist any more. The project was moved to SourceForge
> CVS but I have no idea how we could drain series 1.6.x from there.
>
> 2. Despite the fact that debian/get-orig-source.sh said:
> # We just assume that DSOL is v1.6.9 as it's not been updated in ever.
> the download page[4] has 1.6.10
>
> 3. To complete the confusion about versions the dsol-1.6 folder on
> SourceForge[5] has version 1.6.2 and 1.6.6
>
> 4. In march 2014 2.1.0 was released on SourceForge[6] and this is
> most probably based on the code the debian/get-orig-source.sh I
> have commited now is fetching from CVS.
>
> Tim, could you please check out whether version 2.1.0 of libdsol will
> work for your final target? Since this seems to be maintained I would
> prefer to package this. If this is not the case I would volunteer to
> contact the authors about a reliable way to fetch the source of the
> latest 1.6.x series files.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> [1] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2015-March/031703.html
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2015/03/msg00066.html
> [3] svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/libdsol1-java/trunk/
> [4] http://sk-3.tbm.tudelft.nl/dsol/1.6/dsol/source-repository.html
> [5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsol/files/dsol/dsol-1.6/
> [6] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsol/files/dsol/dsol-2.1.0/
>
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