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

[Radu Gheorghe <radu0gheorghe@gmail.com>]

Hi Nick,

2012/10/30 Nick Robinson-Wall <nick@robinson-wall.com>:
> 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.
>

So that means that there should be a different Debian package for
libsigar, right? And the same for all other dependencies, I guess.

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

Done :)

>
>
> 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.

Agreed :) Please feel free to delegate where you think I could help you.