Bug#256283: debianizing pylucene

2004-10-13 Thread Jeff Bowden
OK, so here it is then. I don't think it got into the bug so I'm attaching Jeff's critique of my initial packaging. I have not found time to address any of these so if anyone want's to give it a go, feel free to use http://jlb.distractionlabs.com/python-pylucene_r91.tar.gz as a starting point

Bug#256283: [pylucene-dev] Re: pylucene-dev Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2

2004-09-21 Thread Jeff Bowden
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: So Jeff what can I do? I already build and install pylucene on several Debian machines with every new version but it's been a couple of years since I've made a Debian package. Could you crank one out if I gave you build instructions and dependencies? I will not

Bug#256283: [pylucene-dev] lucene, pylucene & debian packaging

2004-09-18 Thread Jeff Bowden
One possibility is for Debian's lucene package to do both javac and gcj compilation. It would provide both a java and native library version of lucene. Then a separate pylucene package would handle swig and creation of the python module. This would have the advantage of making lucene available

Bug#256283: [pylucene-dev] lucene, pylucene & debian packaging

2004-09-18 Thread Jeff Bowden
I also have wondered about lucene.patches but I never bothered to ask. Aside from that I like your plan and I'm willing to help if there's anything I can do. Jeff Breidenbach wrote: I'm the maintainer of Debian's lucene package, and I noticed interest in bringing pylucene into the distribut

Bug#256283: pylucene build and works fine on debian

2004-08-12 Thread Jeff Bowden
I had some troubles with gcc-3.3 but it works great now that gcc-3.4 is in unstable. Here's my diff to the Makefile. License for pylucene is MIT-ish but it includes lucene itself which is Apache License v 2.0. Not sure how to get the attention of the right person to package this. It only n