Bug#639910: Packaging sbt
Hi Marko and thanks for answering :)
> Sorry, I didn't try to understand the details of your latest effort, but
> just to give you a heads up - I was/have been working on packaging SBT
> too.
No problem with that, that may not be trivial and well explained
> A couple of months ago or so I started reviving the effort to get SBT
> into Debian:
>
> https://osdir.com/ml/general/2016-10/msg31364.html
great to see enthusiast people
> In a nutshell, Emmanuel packaged Scala 2.10 because it's a dependency
> for SBT, and the scala package moved to 2.11.8 in the meantime. Me being
> a newbie wrt Debian packaging had a hard time using it in the form he
> made it available in (it is not in the official Debian repos, but in a
> Java Debian team repo) to continue working on packaging SBT, and due to
> me being busy at school and overwhelmed with issues in packaging SBT, I
> silently drifted away.
>
> Nevertheless, it'd be great if there was a group of us and if we could
> dust this effort off and make more progress.
>
> I don't know if it's just me, but I find it hard to contribute in the
> current setting - there are just so many things to do to package SBT,
> there is so much I don't know about, then what is probably a simple and
> quick task for experienced developers takes a whole eternity for me, and
> I have a feeling as if most of the time I'm just moving around with a
> blindfold over my eyes. This is not to say I don't appreciate what
> others have helped with (it was mostly Emmanuel); I do appreciate it!
It's not just you.
Packaging, debian policy, scala, java world etc... each is a specific
world that needs knowledge, and all of this together is needed for this
sbt bootstrap task.
Add to this random availibility to learn because of life and the
"project" won't progress fast :-/
> The way I see it, it would be most effective if we made a clear list of
> things to do, splitted it into small tasks, and then a few of us got
> together online (e.g., IRC) and worked on this for a couple of hours. Of
> course, with someone experienced on board to guide those of us that are
> less experienced.
This is only my opinion, but I think the core bootstrapping may not be
the easiest way to learn packaging.
Though, if we take what I've started to do, we may be able to split
things and find newbie friendly subtasks. It's just that defining
adapted task is also some work and I may be short of time, especially
with Christmas coming.
Given the feedback that Emmanuel (or any other experienced Debianist) will give,
I'll try to spend some time to define easy subtasks.
F.
>
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