Bug#410283: Status of ITP for "jtb"
Ciao Davide,
On 06/16/2010 07:25 AM, David Paleino wrote:
> I pinged the people responsible for the homepage of JTB, and it's now up again.
That's good, thanks!
> Do you have time to complete this ITP? (it's blocking several other packages,
> and it would be good if we do it quick)
>
> The package is fairly simple to prepare (I prepared one in.. five minutes? ;)),
> but I'd prefer someone more Java-involved to take it (I'm packaging a bunch of
> Java libraries just because they are missing dependencies of one of my
> packages).
I also a have basic package ready, but I still have to prepare the
manpage for the jtb command, fill the copyright file and add a maven pom
file.
Moreover it is not clear to me which version is the right one to package:
On [1] the latest version is 1.3.2, from 2005, probably no longer
maintained.
Looks like that [2] took over development of jtb, distributing version
1.4.3.2.
So I would be inclined to distribute the latter.
However the only reason I am packaging jtb is beacuse it is used by
javacc-maven-plugin, which actually use 1.3.2. Therefore I need to make
sure that it works with 1.4.3.2.
The only reason I want to package jtb is because it is a chain
dependency of htmlunit, and I am not java-involved :). Anyway, if you
(or anybody else reading this ITP) want to take-over or co-maintain jtb,
you are welcome! I can start pushing the changes to git.debian.org
I am planning to to some more work on it this weekend and hopefully get
it uploaded...
Thanks for the interest,
Ludovico
[1] http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/jtb/Files/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipse-javacc/
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