Bug#519938: RFS: System protoaculous library
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:51:14 +0100 Damien Raude-Morvan wrote:
> Le mardi 29 décembre 2009 21:10:41, Michael Gilbert a écrit :
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> [context: I'm the owner of yuicompressor ITP #519938]
>
> > I have put together a protoaculous package for the packages currently
> > embedding it (which of course leads to difficulty when it comes to
> > security updates). I am looking for a sponsor that would be willing
> > to upload the package. Note that I also had to package yui-compressor
> > (which already had an ITP #519938 that appeared to have stalled).
>
> I haven't seen any ping from you regarding #519938. As a general guideline, if
> an ITP is assigned to someone you should try to contact him before working
> alone on your side :)
>
> For example, I would have said to you that there is already a preview package
> in pkg-java SVN repository :
> svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-java/trunk/yuicompressor/
>
> This preview package contains :
> - a debian/watch file
> - a reviewed debian/copyright
>
> but it's missing some interesting bits from your package :
> - a manpage
> - a launcher shell script
>
> I think your first step will be to commit this work to pkg-java SVN repository
> (you can request access on [1]).
>
>
> Secondly, to explain the "stalled" status of this ITP :
> yuicompressor used a modified and embeded version of rhino Javascript library.
> YUI Compressor won't work with genuine rhino debian package [2].
>
> I've seen in your debian/rules that you are trying to "apt-get source rhino"
> during build : it seems wrong from my point of view. You cannot rely on deb-
> src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list to build your package and you cannot
> download source code during build (even when using apt-get).
>
> One possible short term solution will be to create a new rhino-source package
> (like we have cacao-source package) to cleanly Build-Depends from but I
> haven't had time to work on it (patches welcome :).
>
> Other mid-term solution, will be to fix yuicompressor to use clean AST
> (Abstract Syntax Tree) processor [3].
Hi,
I've merged my version with the existing work and commited it to
pkg-java's svn repo. Please take a look at it. At this point, the
package builds and it is lintian-clean. I'd be very interested in any
contructive feedback you may have.
Best wishes,
Mike
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