Bug#873341: Sbt packaging (Was: Bug#873341: Any news for this issue?)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Frédéric,

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:41:09AM +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote:
> I'm still out of time at the moment on the sbt front.
> The new packaging way I was investigating is idle at the moment.

Thanks for the update.

> The other way I was thinking of is to push things in non-free, but then
> I'm not sure we could drag things back in main and also I think people
> relying on sbt would prefer it to be available in main.
> What's your opinion on this ?

I do not think we should try a detour via non-free if the code is
actually free.

> I've spend so much time on this already, and I wouldn't want it to be
> useless, so I'm still willing to pursue that effort, but I'll have to
> wait some time to have some spare time again.

Any volunteer to work on this.  I think there quite some amount of
interesting Free Software out there that needs sbt.

> I'll have to ask for removal of that set of packages for now as it's
> incomplete as it is right now and the packaging not compliant with
> Debian's policy.

Please hold on before you ask for removal of source package files.  New
queue processing is quite slow currently.  It would be better to fix the
issues - and if you be a bit more verbose what exactly is not policy
compliant I'd colunteer to have a look.

Kind regards

      Andreas. 
 
> On Fri, 25 May 2018 13:33:05 +0200, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I once libscala-pickling-java and I wonder whether I could provide any
> > help.  I'd love to finalise the project that made me stumbling about sbt
> > last year.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >      Andreas.
> > 
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> > http://fam-tille.de
> > 



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