Status of Solr and Lucene in Debian

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 07:22:24PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
> tomas at tuxteam.de:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've got a question (which has possibly been beaten to death: sorry if
> > it is so)
> > 
> > Is there any effort underway to get a recent-ish Solr (say >= 3.4)
> > packaged for Debian?
> Lucene3 is underway:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/lucene3.git

Yay!

> But Solr is orphaned for a while now with nobody interested to maintain it. It 
> would be great, if somebody who actually uses it, would start maintaining it 
> in Debian.

Ugh. I've seen your hint ;-)

It'd be a tall order for me (I'm as far from being a Java guy myself as
one could think). OTOH this might be a chance to convince my boss to
"donate" a couple of work hours towards this task. Echhh.

Might I count on your (a collective "you" here) help? Where can I read up
on the specific difficulties of packaging Java under Debian?

Maybe. Just maybe...

Regards
- -- tomás
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