Make source acceptable in Debian?

[Thomas Sødring]

Hi,

This looks good! So is the point of this is that you want to create a
.deb file that is installable manually or that it becomes part of the
official debian supported packages?

The pom files are nikita project files, so they are obviously not
accessible for the maven repository for Debian. But given that the
project has internal dependencies (e.g. core-common) and it's not
complaining about that, then it might be possible to get around these
project dependencies.

 - Tom

On 12/06/2016 11:51 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Just a quick followup on this.  I tested the debian tools on the source,
> to see how hard it would be to make a Debian package.  I installed
> maven-debian-helper and ran
>
>   DEBFULLNAME="Petter Reinholdtsen" DEBEMAIL=pere at debian.org mh_make
>
> After several questions and analyzing the source code, the script
> reported two missing dependencies mentioned three places blocking the
> build:
>
>   core-common/pom.xml: dependency is not packaged in the Maven
>     repository for Debian:
>     org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa:debian 
>   core-webapp/pom.xml: dependency is not packaged in the Maven
>     repository for Debian:
>     org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:debian 
>   core-webapp/pom.xml: dependency is not packaged in the Maven
>     repository for Debian:
>     org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:debian 
>
> That isn't too bad.  I guess we should submit WNPP requests[1] asking
> for their inclusion, if they are going to be used by nikita also in the
> future.
>
>  [1] <URL: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ >.
>