* Package name : flex-sdk Version : 4.1.0 Upstream Author : Adobe Systems Incorporated * URL : http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/ * License : MPL-1.1 Programming Lang: Java Description : Framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications The Flex SDK provides a highly productive, open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns suitable for developers from many backgrounds.
I don't know thing one about being a package maintainer, but I've attached the source for the flex-sdk package I hacked together for my own use. I figure I may as well share it and get some feedback. I'm going to take some time to read the developer's reference and the new maintainer's guide in the mean time. Thanks, --Joey Parrish
Any update on the legal (or technical) issues to get the package into main ? thx
Mathieu, Technical issues: can't build from source. Would be fine for contrib, though. Legal issues: couldn't get an answer from Adobe, who then abandoned the project. Would be fine for non-free, though. But nobody wanted to entertain the idea of putting this package anywhere but main. Personally, I don't see how no package at all is better than a build-dep in contrib or non-free. I gave up trying to convince anybody and finally left the mailing list. I don't even use Flex these days, so I see no point in fighting anybody over it. You can search my name in the debian-mentors mailing list archives if you want to see some of the discussions that happened around this.
Joey, Ok, I found this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/10/msg00195.html Which points to : http://mentors.debian.net/package/flex-sdk-4.5 However this leads to an error. Digging further I found: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/10/msg00421.html Which leads to: http://alioth.debian.org/scm/?group_id=100677 I cannot retrieve from git it fails with: $ git clone git+ssh://malat@git.debian.org/git/pkg-flex-sdk/pkg-flex-sdk.git Cloning into 'pkg-flex-sdk'... fatal: '/git/pkg-flex-sdk/pkg-flex-sdk.git' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Looking at: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/ I do not see any 'pkg-flex-sdk'. Do you know where all your work went ? Thanks, -M
IIRC, mentors.debian.net had some kind of time-out. Since no one sponsored my package, it was deleted automatically. Something like that. I had already given up by then. Digging further I found: I don't know what that is about. I know almost nothing about alioth, actually. Maybe Jaldhar can help you with that. I can offer you a tarball from the private repo I have at home, though, if you like.
retitle 592007 RFP: flex-sdk -- Framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications noowner 592007 tag 592007 - pending thanks Hi, A long time ago, you expressed interest in packaging flex-sdk. Unfortunately, it seems that it did not happen. In Debian, we try not to keep ITP bugs open for a too long time, as it might cause other prospective maintainers to refrain from packaging the software. This is an automatic email to change the status of flex-sdk back from ITP (Intent to Package) to RFP (Request for Package), because this bug hasn't seen any activity during the last 14 months. If you are still interested in packaging flex-sdk, please send a mail to <control@bugs.debian.org> with: retitle 592007 ITP: flex-sdk -- Framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications owner 592007 ! thanks It is also a good idea to document your progress on this ITP from time to time, by mailing <592007@bugs.debian.org>. If you need guidance on how to package this software, please reply to this email, and/or contact the debian-mentors@lists.debian.org mailing list. Thank you for your interest in Debian,