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kawa in debian?
- From: Chris Dean <ctdean at sokitomi dot com>
- To: "Neil W. Van Dyke" <neil at neilvandyke dot org>
- Cc: kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:58:21 -0800
- Subject: kawa in debian?
- References: <16463.46506.948574.605779@neilvandyke.org>
I'm interested and use Debian daily, but clueless about what a
maintainer does. What would be the first step?
Regards,
Chris Dean
Neil W. Van Dyke <neil@neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> Hi. Could Kawa be added to Debian GNU/Linux?
>
> I do portability regression testing of one of my Scheme packages under
> about a dozen Scheme dialects, only 4 of which are not in Debian.
>
> My latest manual install of Kawa (1.7.90) now hits a bytecode verifier
> error during my test suite, which I suspect is due to a configuration
> problem involving the myriad Java VMs, compilers, and class libraries
> installed on my Debian boxes. Unfortunately, I have *zero* time to
> debug the configuration mess, and have to drop Kawa as a tested dialect
> for the release I'm doing tonight.
>
> What I'd need to continue/resume supporting Kawa as a tested dialect for
> my Scheme package would be for it to be in Debian, so that I can say
> "apt-get install kawa" to have Kawa properly installed and configured.
>
> If someone is interested in becoming a Debian "maintainer" for Kawa,
> that'd be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
>
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