Re: [ITA] Turkey: looking for a sponsor
Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have patched turkey to solve an ftbfs in Ubuntu gutsy (thanks
> especially to the work of Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz) and made some
> general update and clean up; I attach the patch to this email.
> I was told by a Debian QA person that since turkey is currently
> orphaned, I could help Debian as well offering to adopt this package.
> Bear with me as I'm quite new to Debian, is there a sponsor willing to
> help me out with this?
> The patch I attach is for Ubuntu, so it needs a couple of (I believe)
> minor changes to the changelog and checking of dependancies (as well as
> the jvm directory).
> The package NEEDS the sun jvm to be able to run properly in gui mode, so
> it needs as well to be moved to the non-free archive.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Cesare Tirabassi
>
>
>
Hello Cesare,
I'm not a DD so I can't offer to sponsor you. However there are plenty
of DDs on the debian-java list who might be able to help (I've CCed that
list). I used to use turkey to generate filler text so I'm glad it has
found someone to look after it. Does Ubuntu currently just sync this
package with Debian?
A couple of questions:
* Can it still be *built* using free Java implementations?
* Can you still use its command line interface with a free Java
runtime (I'm pretty sure this is possible).
If so then maybe it should stay in main - what's everybody else's opinion?
There's a Debian Java Packaging team that you might find useful:
http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html
You might want to have a look at this FAQ:
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
or some of these documents:
http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide
http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian
http://www.debian.org/devel/join/
Thanks,
Paul
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