[pylucene-dev] Re: PyLucence Debian Package

[Jeff Breidenbach]

Matthew,

Given Andi's comments, one possibility is to put the PyLucene package
into Debian, but under the contrib section and marking it with appropriate
bug entries. The hope would be people could improve the build situation
over time.

Another possibility - maybe - is to package an older version of PyLucene
that depends on Java Lucene 1.4.3. However, I suspect there are likely
to be similar issues and an upatched Java Lucene 1.4.3 will not be a viable
build dependency either.

A third possibility is to simply wait and hope the situation gets better.
Since both Java Lucene 1.9 and PyLucene have an rc in their version
numbers, this is not a completely crazy idea. On the other hand, it
may be a really long wait.

A fourth possibility is to modify the Debian PyLucene package such
that it first builds the patched Java Lucene .jar from .java files. That's
kind of  messy, and redundant, but may not have any blockers.

I am putting the Debian Java packaging team on the CC: list in case
someone there has a suggestion or comment. Officially, the Java
Lucene package is jointly maintained by this team. The extended
discussion and context for this email is here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256283

The requirement to get into Debian main is a complete build from
source, using a Free Software toolchain, contolled by the Debian
packaging system. Other sections of Debian relax some of these
requirements. In any case, I will look over other apects of the package
for possible improvements.

Jeff