Path: csiph.com!news.uzoreto.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!news.dns-netz.com!news.freedyn.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Emmanuel Bourg Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java? Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:20:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Sun Dec 6 21:18:49 2020 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.299 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: NOT_IN_SBL_XBL_SPAMHAUS=-1.5 CL_IP_EQ_HELO_IP=-2 (check from: .apache. - helo: .mxout1-ec2-va.apache. - helo-domain: .apache.) FROM/MX_MATCHES_HELO(DOMAIN)=-2; rate: -5.5 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/22591 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/c3f4fb4d-246b-89b1-b9c6-14454d6a942f@apache.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 19 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 22:18:30 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <354d15b9-1b12-317a-93ab-c825b7bdb4b0@antonin.delpeuch.eu> <18592dac9edda0ed5228d30df3a6c1d77c35c971.camel@debian.org> <121016a6b77be1f1d013033d9b9cb2cdf14e2afe.camel@debian.org> <69bbbe3f-887a-c542-9b46-8173fdd48131@antonin.delpeuch.eu> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:11967 Le 06/12/2020 à 21:46, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) a écrit : > Ok! I would personally love to be able to get involved, but I think it > is pretty clear that it would be pretty risky to start such a big > packaging project on my own with no prior experience. So I'll definitely > follow up offlist. Hi Antonin, Did you consider building a .deb package with jdeb [1] ? It's an alternative that involves much less work than uploading to the Debian repository. For a complex and very specialized software like OpenRefine that might be more suitable. This list can still give some guidance on how to structure the package and ensure it plays well with the Java ecosystem in Debian. Emmanuel Bourg [1] https://github.com/tcurdt/jdeb