inofficial package archive and upload queue

[Ludovic Claude]

I think that's a great news, as it would help the pkg-java team to
collaborate more on large and complex projects (Maven, Eclipse, any J2EE
server), plus those who live on the bleeding edge will get their daily
cup of fresh Java software.

The problem I have with the Debian NEW queue is that it takes several
weeks if not months to get new or updated packages approved. While it's
a necessary work to protect Debian from copyright infringement issues
and keep the official repositories in a good state, it is not helping
the pkg-java team to collaborate when there are dependencies between
newly created packages. For example, I'm working on Maven 2.2.0, and
it's a hell of a long list of related packages. Packages are ready, and
it will be possible in a few days to use Maven to build Debian packages,
but it will take months before all of this hits Debian experimental.
With this unofficial package archive, you will be able to start
packaging Maven projects as soon as I'm done with the work.

Ludovic

Michael Koch a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:29:29AM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
>> as a first result from Debconf9 I am announcing the setup of an
>> inofficial package archive and upload queue. The details can be found
>> in the Debian wiki at <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/JavaPackaging>.
>> I'll move my packages now from http://people.debian.org/~twerner/ to
>> the new archive.
> 
> And that helps exactly what? The referenced page lists no reasons.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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