[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#800762: Packaging javax.json (Was: Bug#800762: Java problem when upgrading pixelmed)

[Markus Koschany]

Am 26.04.2016 um 20:54 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 04:22:23PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
>> Le 26/04/2016 16:06, Andreas Tille a écrit :
>>
>>> I have no free capacity to do large scale packaging
>>> of new dependencies.  So if somebody volunteers to package javax.json
>>> (which might be interesting also for other projects) I might care for
>>> pixelmed.  Otherwise I'll keep the package in its current state or even
>>> remove it from Debian.
>>
>> As a reminder, you did package jsonp :)
>>
>>     git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-java/libjsonp-java.git
>>
>> The package builds fine, it just needs an ITP and a proper copyright review.
> 
> It was even ITPed #811074 and is now uploaded.  May I exchange the time
> I've spent into this against some time people help me finalising
> libnetlib-java which is quite important for me and I'm desperately
> trying since January ...

Hi Andreas,

I've already put libnetlib-java on my todo list but it has a rather low
priority at the moment (possibly in May). It is probably not that
difficult but I will very likely start from scratch again because that's
a lesson I've learned from my packaging adventures with the lombok-*
stack; it is sometimes easier to start again than trying to understand
the existing packaging.

I think it's rather difficult to convince people to package something
which has no concrete value for them. I wouldn't try to hard here
because there are more pressing (Java) matters. I'm also not a great fan
of packaging something because it could be of value in the future. The
fact is there is nobody who cares enough or would need those packages at
the moment. The risk is that the new dependencies get outdated very
quickly because nobody feels responsible for them. Careful here.
Pixelmed isn't broken, so there is no need to rush this. If you or
someone else from the Med team are not motivated enough to maintain
Pixelmed, I'd suggest to focus on something else for now and to come
back to this package later.

Regards,

Markus

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