Help needed with updating some Java libraries (netlib-java, libmtj-java)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

when checking my Maintainer dashboard dashboard I realised that the
watch file of netlib-java and libmtj-java became disfunctional and when
tracking down the issue I noticed that both projects moved from SF to
Github.  While I updated the URLs in SVN accordingly I noticed that the
Build system has changed as well which just crosses my (low) level of
Java competence (again).

Since both packages are definitely not really in the field of Debian Med
but just preconditions for some biological package (beast) I wonder
whether this might be the right point in time to move the package to
Debian Java.  I'd volunteer to inject the package into Debian Java Git
but in turn I would need some help (starting with netlib-java).  I have
the feeling that the amount of work for a skilled Java packager is low
(but I really would not regard myself as such a person).

BTW, the packages are hanging around in contrib since netlib depends
from f2j (at least the current version).  I'll send a separate mail to
f2j authors to try (again) to convince them to use a DFSG free license.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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