Help needed with updating some Java libraries (netlib-java, libmtj-java)

[Olivier Sallou]

On 08/29/2014 02:38 AM, tony mancill wrote:
> On 08/28/2014 07:01 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when checking my Maintainer dashboard dashboard I realised that the
>> watch file of netlib-java and libmtj-java became disfunctional and when
>> tracking down the issue I noticed that both projects moved from SF to
>> Github.  While I updated the URLs in SVN accordingly I noticed that the
>> Build system has changed as well which just crosses my (low) level of
>> Java competence (again).
>>
>> Since both packages are definitely not really in the field of Debian Med
>> but just preconditions for some biological package (beast) I wonder
>> whether this might be the right point in time to move the package to
>> Debian Java.  I'd volunteer to inject the package into Debian Java Git
>> but in turn I would need some help (starting with netlib-java).  I have
>> the feeling that the amount of work for a skilled Java packager is low
>> (but I really would not regard myself as such a person).
>>
>> BTW, the packages are hanging around in contrib since netlib depends
>> from f2j (at least the current version).  I'll send a separate mail to
>> f2j authors to try (again) to convince them to use a DFSG free license.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>>         Andreas.
>>
> Hello Andreas,
>
> If you're willing to migrate these to the pkg-java repo, I'll work on
> updating them and uploading them as Java Team packages.
>
> Also, I've been meaning to send you a mail regarding libsnappy-java,
> since we have an RC bug there.  The last commit makes it appear that you
> were considering moving it debian-med in 2012.  Is that still the case?
We have a libsnappy-java version available in DebianMed [0], but a
specific release (certainly due to a package which needed this specific
release and upstream broke its API).
I do not know if we need to manage snappy by itself in DebianMed repo as
it has nothing related to bio/med but is only a dependency.

[0] https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/snappy1.0.3-java.html

Olivier
>
> Cheers,
> tony
>

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