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

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

Hi Radu,

On 30 Oct 2012, at 09:10, Radu Gheorghe <radu0gheorghe@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, that's a problem indeed. I saw it after opening this bug.

I've had a look into it a bit deeper. There are a few problems with packaging based on the upstream tarball as it stands. The biggest seems to be that it ships pre-compiled libsigar.�

There isn't a pre-existing package for this. I have yet to take a detailed look at it but at first glance it seemed like it would be a reasonably simple exercise to create. I have yet to check for packages for all of its Java dependencies.

Yes, I'm actually more involved with ES now than I was a while ago. I
almost forgot about it because I didn't see any reaction to this bug.
Until now :)

Excellent. Having someone involved upstream will certainly smooth the process :)

That sounds really nice, thank you. Maybe we can come up with a plan
on how to go further.

Perhaps you would be able to take a look through�http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide�?�Of particular interest is the section on Java.

I will have a quick stab at a very basic package and identify any obvious blockers for us. If it looks doable I suggest we convert this to an ITP.

Regards,

Nick