[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Packages for JSword

[Samuel Lucas Vaz de Mello]

Hi,

> I'm ok to mentor & help you out with general packaging bits as long as
> you are willing to learn just the java packaging quirks. We use bzr to
> keep our packaging and we use launchpad for hosting and building
> packages for testing and backports. Our ppa's have a lof of users =)
>
> On our team we have 2 Debian Developers which have been reviewing our
> work & sponsoring uploads.
>
> You can also take alternative route and keep jsword maintained with
> java team which seem to be friendly people with experienced packagers
> available for mentoring & sponsoring.

I'm currently packaging gstreamer-java too (another java dependency of
Datasoul), so I'm getting familiar with java packaging. For
gstreamer-java I have already created lintian-clean packages and
uploaded to mentors.debian.net. One of the guys at debian-java
reviewed it and I'm going to upload the new version  soon, most of the
issues was related to general packaging, not java-specific.

I guess the process for jsword should be very similar.

I'll try to package jsword and upload it to mentors, then we can find
where it's better to maintain it.

Maybe in pkg-crosswire we'll have more people interested in making
jsword available in the repository (the guy helping me out in
debian-java is a sabily developer [a kind of ubuntu islamic edition],
so I won't be surprised if he don't get very interested in jsword :-)
)

> JSword is the missing bit in Debian and I'm sure many people will
> appreciate it in debian / ubuntu and we would love to help you out in
> packaging it.

I will try to do it and will came back to you when I got something ready.

 - Samuel