packaging of flatbuffers

[Jonathon Love <jon@thon.love>]

hi folks,

i've been packaging the flatbuffers project, and i think it might be 
ready to go (although, perhaps it should be submitted independent of 
debian-science).

i've pushed the work to:

    /git/debian-science/packages/flatbuffers.git

the flatbuffers project contains many subprojects which should form 
separate binary packages. my packaging so far produces:

 - libflatbuffers-dev

 - flatbuffers-compiler

 - libjs-flatbuffers

 - libflatbuffers-java

but there's also subprojects for go, C#, python, PHP, etc. which i 
haven't packaged.... and didn't really want to. hopefully that's ok.

i'm not completely sure i've done the right thing with the maven java 
builds. the pom.xml has sections requiring the plugins:

 - maven-source-plugin (version 2.3)

 - maven-javadoc-plugin (version 2.9.1)

so i've added these to the dependencies in d/control

however, these (older) versions don't exist in debian, and only newer 
ones (2.4, and 2.10.3). so i've patched pom.xml to use these newer 
versions, which works. but of course, this will *only* build with these 
versions, so i've fixed the dependency to require these versions.

from what i've read, maven requires you to specify a specific version, 
and doesn't allow wildcards or >= $version ... so i can't see a way 
around this.

could someone review the package for me?

with thanks

jonathon