antlr package

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Jan Dittberner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> recently I built a new package (xlwt) depending on a file in antlr (2.x 
> series). When I started work on xlwt one of the Python module team 
> members mentioned in IRC that antlr is not in a good shape too. I looked 
> at antlr during the last days and I have the feeling that the package 
> could really need some care.
>
> I'm writing to all of you because I want to avoid starting work that may 
> already be in progress. The package page at [1] tells me that there is 
> an uploaded version by Asheesh Laroia at the mentors.debian.net 
> repository [2]. I looked at it and saw that the package fixes the RC bug 
> but doesn't improve it any further.

That'd be awesome to fix up antlr. I only looked at the RC bug, but I'm 
very confused as to why the Debian Java team didn't answer my repeated 
emails about it.

> I'd like to help with the package with reviewing patches fixing lintian stuff
> and looking at the BTS (and hopefully find solutions for bugs). I'm in NM but
> maintain some other packages [3] for a while so I have some experience with
> packaging. Maybe my Java knowledge will be of help too (antlr spits a lot of
> deprecation warnings that should IMHO be reported/fixed in antlr upstream).
>
> [3] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=jan@dittberner.info

Awesome.

> Should I start working on the package? I could use svn if anybody could 
> add me to the pkg-java team on alioth (my alioth account is 
> jandd-guest). Before starting new work I think the diff between svn 
> trunk and the current uploaded version of antlr has to be committed to 
> svn though.
>
> I'm CCing antlr Uploaders and Matthias Klose who uploaded the latest 
> antlr version because I don't know wheter you're members of the team's 
> list.

It's not my package, and I'm not in the Java team, but someone should 
do it, and no one else, so it should probably be you!

Also, apparently debian-java is for humans and pkg-java-maintainers is for 
commit mail. I had no idea about this until I just read an email p-j-m. 
(Maybe that explains why no one answered my queries about antlr before.)

-- Asheesh.

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