[Jalview-discuss] jalview packages for Debian

[Hervé Ménager]

Hi Vincent, Peter, Steffen, and Jim,

I am also potentially very interested in a Jalview debian package. It 
would be really great to get it. Is there any news on this initiative?

Cheers,
Hervé

On 04/15/2011 03:08 PM, Jim Procter wrote:
> Hi Vincent, Peter and Steffen.
>
> It is really good to hear that Jalview will finally be available as a
> package on Debian, Vincent.
>
> Could you join jalview-dev
> (http://www.jalview.org/mailman/listinfo/jalview-dev) and post a link to
> a prototype .deb, or the details of the repository where its uploaded,
> so I can do some testing ?   Unfortunately, there may be a few run-time
> issues that will need fixing, and we currently lack an automated test
> suite to catch these issues.
>
> Jim.
>
> On 15/04/2011 11:33, Peter Troshin wrote:
>> Hi Vincent,
>>
>> Good day for you then! You will get everything you asked for (:-))
>>
>> Now seriously - thank you for taking trouble explaining why you need
>> this and making good suggestions!
>> I will let you know the details once all of this is ready.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On 15/04/2011 11:13, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>>>      Hello Peter !
>>>
>>> On 15/04/11 11:37, Peter Troshin wrote:
>>>> I am sorry to hear that you are having troubles. The jar that is missing
>>>> is a part of the JABAWS package http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws
>>>> as you know.
>>>>
>>>> However, as this is just a utility jar, there is no separate download
>>>> for it as yet. I did not realize someone will want it that way. Please
>>>> bear with me and I will make you a separate source download. Is that
>>>> what you need - just a jar file with the source code for this?
>>>      This is exactly what I need - the source for the embedded
>>> compbio-annotations-1.0.jar and compbio-util-1.3.jar in
>>> jaba-client-source.jar.
>>>
>>>      Actually, could you simply offer for download an updated
>>> jaba-client-source.jar with simply all the sources in ?
>>>
>>>      Now that I'm at it, I'll push my luck into asking you to version the
>>> download location: if you could name it jaba-client-source-1.1.jar (1.1
>>> is the jabaws version, isn't it ?), that would be fantastic: that
>>> enables all the version-tracking facilities that Debian provide to keep
>>> track with what we call "upstream" versions.
>>>
>>>> I am sorry I am not familiar with the Debian packaging process.
>>>      No problems ! Debian and all distributions in general are somehow
>>> demanding on what can be packaged, in addition to the copyright/license
>>> requirements. These demands may seem silly from a developer point of
>>> view, but once you've turned to packaging, you see the reason behind all
>>> that. The page http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide contains a (rather
>>> lengthy) reading on how to make the job easy for packagers to package
>>> the software you write. In most cases, it boils down to basically one
>>> thing: avoid to distribute code-less compiled stuff (such as the
>>> aforementionned ones). Actually, this is a problem of a particular
>>> magnitude for Java software specifically, with the ease to distribute
>>> compiled code that will run everywhere. [1]
>>>
>>>      Many thanks !
>>>
>>> 	Vincent
>>>
>>> [1] For those interested, I have written a long post on that topic some
>>> time ago:
>>>
>>> http://vince-debian.blogspot.com/2009/03/java-packaging-nightmare.html
>
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