Bug#660826: RFP: Elasticsearch -- Distributed, RESTful, Search Engine built on top of Apache Lucene

[Nicholas Robinson-Wall <nick@robinson-wall.com>]

> I would love to see Elasticsearch in Debian. I'm not sure how package
> maintenance will be done, since they build .deb packages as well.

I make heavy use of Elasticsearch at work and would like to see a package
in Debian as well. The upstream .deb is generated by Maven using jdeb
and is consequently full of lintian warnings and errors.

> I would volunteer for maintaining the package

As would I. Are you still interested in maintaining, or even comaintaining?

I plan on looking at the feasibility of a proper (non-jdeb) package for this
shortly, and changing this to an ITP if it looks doable. Involving upstream in
some capacity might also be advisable, given their obvious interest in
providing Debian support.

Regards,
Nicholas Robinson-Wall