On 3/3/14, 2:01 PM, David Martínez Moreno wrote: > On 2/28/14, 10:10 PM, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: >> Hi Ender, all, >> >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:16 PM, David Martínez Moreno <ender@debian.org> wrote: >>> Hello all. My name is Ender, I have been a Debian developer for quite some >>> time and I work for Facebook, so I decided to do proper packaging of hhvm in >>> Alioth, as having this done properly is a goal for the team in the first part of >>> the year. Hello, I just wanted to update everyone on this thread with respect to the Debian packaging. I have been working (with some help from Faidon) to bring the 2.4.1 tarball to Debian standards. The git repo (remember, http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/hhvm.git;a=summary) reflects right now three major operational changes: integration of system's libzip, integration of system's libsqlite3 and the removal of several libraries that added useless dependencies to the package. Apart from that, the debian/copyright work is, as you may imagine, a three-ring circus. Apart from the huge list of contributors and different licenses, there is a big showstopper that I found so far, which is that a couple of files are licensed under the (in)famous JSON.org license (Software has to be used for Good not Evil). I'm doing my best to convince the in-house developers that switching to pecl-json-c (from Remi Collet) is the best approach as we are not bug-compatible anymore with the two main Linux families out there (Debian and RedHat) since the end of May 2013, but at the same time they want to stay close to PHP for good reasons. There is an endless debate^W^W^Wmore information at PHP#63520. In the meantime, Facebook has released HHVM 3.0.0 with Hack support (a superset of PHP with gradual typing, collections and more stuff - http://hacklang.org). While I'm all for packaging that version, I'm trying to stay close to 2.4.1 as I already know my troubles with this version and I don't want to add more logs to the fire, so I'm not updating the upstream version yet. Also the 3.0.0 adds dependencies like some OCaml code analysis tools depending on other stuff that is not even nearly packaged, so...you know. All in all, the ball keeps rolling, and hopefully in another month or so I hope to have a package ready in the archives. Call me an optimist. Best regards, Ender.
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