On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:33:14PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > The problem from my point of view is that it builds in my normal > > environment (with the Sun Java jre/jdk installed) but not in a > > pbuilder chroot (because the Sun Java packages require a "Yes, I > > agree with this licence" confirmation which obviously doesn't work in a > > chroot) - I don't know what the buildds would do in that case. > but jabref is architecture "all", why buildd should see it at all? :-) Something like "FTBFS" rings in my ears :-) > > Furthermore the future of Sun Java in Debian is a little unclear - to > > put it mildly. > well... since finally it made its way into non-free, I think (hope) that > it will stay there for quite a while ;-) We'll see. > > And I've tried to compile jabref with free java compilers but without > > success so far. > It might be worth seeking for help of "Debian Java Packaging Project" > members: http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/, if you really want to get > involved that much ;-) To be honest I don't really want to go into java stuff in Debian ATM. > > So I'm a bit unsure what should be done about jabref. > > >...< > indeed, it might be worth asking for an advice from -dev mailing list True. Cc'ing d-d (for your reference: the previous mails can be found at #205392). > > > P.S. Gregor, Unfortunately could not inspect jabref package thoroughly > > > since > > > http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/debian/unstable/jabref_2.0.1+2.1b-2_i386.changes > > > lacking read permissions for us ;-) > > That's a feature (bug?) of mini-dinstall. > > You still can grab all other files from > > http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/debian/unstable/ though. > Well... though I doubt that anyone would run after you but you are > violating GPL license now -- binary is available without the full source... > ;-) and it forbids me to try pbuilder on it... TTBOMK a source package consists of .dsc, .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz. All these files are available. You can download them manually, via apt-get source or via dget *.dsc Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Johnny Cash: Would You Lay With Me (In A Fi
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