Bug#710495: Packaging uses seemingly unmaintained, unpackaged and unkown packaging helper "silt"

[Wolodja Wentland]

Package: libclojure-maven-plugin-java
Version: 1.3.3-3
Severity: wishlist

Hello Peter,

I recently looked into updating clojure-maven-helper to the current version
available from upstream but discovered, much to my dismay, that it uses a
packaging helper called silt [0]. Unfortunately I am quite unfamiliar with
silt and it also looks as if it has neither been packaged for Debian nor
maintained since August 2010.

It would be great if you could consider changing to a more common packaging
system as that would make it much easier for pkg-java team members to work on
this package. It looks as if git-buildpackage is a common choice within the
team and its usage is documented on [1].

Thank you and may you have a nice day!

[0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/pcc-guest/silt.git
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Java/JavaGit

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libclojure-maven-plugin-java depends on:
ii  libcommons-exec-java  1.1-2
ii  libcommons-io-java    2.4-2
ii  libcommons-lang-java  2.6-3
ii  libmaven2-core-java   2.2.1-8

Versions of packages libclojure-maven-plugin-java recommends:
pn  clojure  <none>

libclojure-maven-plugin-java suggests no packages.

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