Bug#752018: Wildfly package
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:41:09 +0200 Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
> On 2015-04-03 10:06, Konstantin Manna wrote:
> > Hi Julian,
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a drive-by remark. For extended help, please consider reaching out
> to debian-java@lists.debian.org if you haven't already done so. :)
Hi Niels
Thanks for your imput, i will consider this when working on it.
>
> > thanks for the update.
> > Lintian does not yet like your package :-)
> >
> > lintian --pedantic wildfly_8.1.0.final+lam.r01_all.deb
>
> If you want to fully "unleash" lintian, you can use "-EvIL +pedantic"
> and then remove the "v" (verbose) now remember the arguments. ;)
>
> (For reference, --pedantic does not enable the I tags and you might want
> to ignore the X as they are eXperimental).
>
> > [...]
>
> A lot of these suggests that the package has been built "manually" via
> dpkg-deb from a recompiled upstream version instead of built from
> source. It is entirely possible that I am wrong here - I have only
> looked at this mail and not at the package.
>
> Generally, you will want a source package that compiles all the java
> files into class files, packs them into .jar files and installs those
> into package directories. Usually with debhelper or cdbs taking care of
> the heavy lifting the packaging side.
> If upstream uses maven, you might want to use debhelper +
> maven-debian-helper (or maybe cdbs + maven-debian-helper). I have not
> tried that combo myself, so please contact debian-java for support on
that.
>
Glad to contribute.
We will check internally how far we can work on it and recompile the
source. Our goald was to have a quickly installable package for our servers.
Though, as this would be a good experience for us, we will keep on
working on it.
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