Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Frederic Bonnard Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java,linux.debian.bugs.dist Subject: Packaging sbt Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:20:02 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Tue Jan 5 15:18:09 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.33 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: NOT_IN_SBL_XBL_SPAMHAUS=-1.5 NOT_IN_BL_NJABL=-1.5 CL_IP_EQ_FROM_MX=-3.1; rate: -6.1 X-Ibm-Helo: d06dlp03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com X-Ibm-Mailfrom: frederic@fr.ibm.com X-Ibm-Rcptto: debian-java@lists.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Tm-As-Mml: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER X-Cbid: 16010514-0013-0000-0000-0000082F214F X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/19014 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20160105155845.GC29723@kin.test.toulouse-stg.fr.ibm.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 38 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:58:45 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20160105155845.GC29723@kin.test.toulouse-stg.fr.ibm.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:8695 linux.debian.bugs.dist:706410 Hi, as Medhi suggested to me, I'm forwarding my questions here to debian Java packaging team. (Medhi answered in the bug : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639910#89 ) Any tip will be appreciated. Thanks, F. > Hi, > I'd be interested in packaging sbt in debian, and I saw the debian bug #639910 [1] > and this simple-build-tool@googlegroups.com thread [2] . > I guess there's not much progress, but I'm asking in case someone is active on > that. > Here is a summary of what I understood so far : > a) to build sbt, you need sbt > b) sbt [may] downloads components online when being used > c) sbt upstream does not provide nor will support alternate build process (make, > ant, whatever) > d) it seems difficult to provide a standalone tarball of a given version of sbt > (David M. Lee) > Is each point [still] correct ? > > I saw the proposition of Mehdi to ask the sbt upstream to propose a source > tarball of sbt and include a standalone version of sbt, but I didn't see any > answer (except if d) was one) > Also I wanted to ask Mehdi, if there wasn't another way by putting sbt in > nonfree. Or maybe have a sbt-bootstrap in nonfree, and a sbt in main that would > be built from nonfree. Though, for sbt-bootstrap, we would need a self contained > sbt (no internet download), right ? > Any help will be welcome, > Thanks and sorry for unburying such a hateful topic :) > > F. > > > 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639910 > 2: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/simple-build-tool/bFaUvjn_j60