On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:20:37PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Since recent sun java entered official debian non-free I thought to > raise back discussion on jabref packaging for debian. Good idea ;-) > I am not sure what Gregor's intent is regarding the package: I've > downloaded .deb from your repository and it installed seemlessly. deb > was lintian/linda clean and it seems that it was maintained by him for a > while now, and even reflected recent inclusion of java into debian. Thanks for the feedback. > Gregory, would you mind being official maintainer for the package > and seeking the sponsor for it (may be someone debian science DD would > be motivated enough to become permanent sponsor ? :-)) Or there is > something which forbids you from doing that? 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. Furthermore the future of Sun Java in Debian is a little unclear - to put it mildly. And I've tried to compile jabref with free java compilers but without success so far. So I'm a bit unsure what should be done about jabref. If there is a consensus that it can (technically and "politically") be included in the Debian archive I wouldn't mind maintaining it (if there is a sponsor of course). > 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. 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: Queen: I Was Born To Love You
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