[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#523913: openjump: New upstream release: 1.3

[Barry deFreese]

Damien Raude-Morvan wrote:
> Le lundi 09 novembre 2009 17:15:43, Barry deFreese a écrit :
>> Hi folks,
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>> I was playing around with OpenJump 1.3 just to see if we could get it
>>  updated. However, there are several issues.  I'm copying Stefan here
>>  because he was helping me from an upstream perspective.
>> Currently 1.3 uses ERMapper and MrSID which are not in Debian.  Stefan was
>>  able to strip those out of the build system.  However, 1.3 does seem to
>>  need Sun's JAI which is also not in Debian, and as far as I can tell not
>>  DFSG.
> 
> Sadly, I haven't had time to get to OGRS2009 [0] because I was busy with 
> LSM/RMLL2009 [1] (also in Nantes, France). Perhaps it was a good opportunity 
> to discuss packaging with some members of OpenJump community.
> 
>> I'm not sure what can be done at this point.  Does anyone have any
>>  suggestions?
>>
>> I'm about to remove libjdom0 from the archive so at least that needs fixed
>>  or it will become RC.
> 
> I don't know OpenJump internals enough, but with your informations it seems 
> packaging 1.3 upstream release will be a tedious task.
> 
> May be, as a short term plan, just fix #500535 [2] (completes migration to
> libjdom1-java) in OpenJump 1.0 to get rid of JDOM 0.x and then work between 
> pkg-grass and pkg-java Debian teams to package OpenJump 1.3 upstream release 
> (with all its dependencies).
> 
>> Sometimes Java team "helper". :)
> Thanks for your help :)
> 
> [0] http://www.ogrs2009.org/doku.php?id=labs
> [1] http://2009.rmll.info/?lang=en
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/500535
> 
OK, I have a "fixed" version of 1.0.  Should I NMU it or does someone want to
review it?

Thanks,

Barry deFreese