Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source - Debian
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I'm the current maintainer of ZeroC Ice packages. Ice is a GPL'd
CORBA-like middleware for distributed heterogeneous computing.
Recently the upstream developers reunified all of the source packages
into a single big tarball. Some of the packages (the ...
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Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source
Dear all,
I'm the current maintainer of ZeroC Ice packages. Ice is a GPL'd
CORBA-like middleware for distributed heterogeneous computing.
Recently the upstream developers reunified all of the source packages
into a single big tarball. Some of the packages (the Java5 packages)
work well under icedtea and Sun JRE 6 but they don't work at all under
any other Java 6 JVM distributed in Debian. Therefore they should go
to contrib. But now there is just one source package. AFAIK IcedTea
is entering main debian soon.
Should I split the source package into a main and contrib part?
Should I release binaries for the DFSG-free part and provide a simple
way to recompile the package with the full functionality?
Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with
gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)?
Is it fine to upload a binary to contrib while the source package is in main?
Best regards,
Paco
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Re: Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote:
> Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with
> gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)?
I don't see a reason to not do that.
> Is it fine to upload a binary to contrib while the source package is in main?
Technicaly this is possible, but AFAIK the ftp team don't longer want
this to be used.
Bastian
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Re: Seeking for advice on packaging reunified upstream source
On Tue Apr 01 14:26, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:49PM +0200, Francisco Moya wrote:
> > Should I provide binaries in main for the Java packages generated with
> > gcj (they would run fine with IcedTea)?
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> I don't see a reason to not do that.
I believe this is still required to be in contrib (certainly I have
packages meeting that description), the binaries depend on something
outside of main to run...
Matt
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