Bug#636554: jruby: New upstream release

[Alex Young]

On 25/09/12 19:02, bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:25:04PM +0100, Alex Young wrote:
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>> The work was done to repackage jruby-1.6.7.2 in June: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-java-maintainers/2012-June/039090.html
>
> Yeah, I saw this message. Well done.

It wasn't me, although I had a small hand in organising it :-)

>> It had no response. I presume that's because it re-ships the jars it
>> requires rather than depending on existing Debian packages where
>> they're available.  If I were to suggest a starting point, it would
>> be to get its dependencies up to date.
>
> I agree, shipping the jars from the upstream source is quite a violation
> of Debian's policy, so this upload won't be accepted I think.

It could go back into non-free until the dependencies are sorted out, 
surely?

-- 
Alex