Status of Debian packaging

[koppor]

This isssue used to track the status of JabRef packaging to Debian. To ease collaboration, the status is tracked at https://github.com/koppor/jabref/blob/master/jabref-in-debian.md.

Comment here if you intend to work on something, then we can update jabref-in-debian.md accordingly.

[tmancill]

• The packaging of fastparse for Debian will require the packaging of sbt: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855304
• The packaging of citeproc-java will require another ITP for jbibtex

[Siedlerchr]

https://wiki.debian.org/JavaPackage

[Siedlerchr]

I have no idea of the debian packaging stuff, but shouldn't it be easier now as we provide deb/rpm packages directly for the upcoming 5.x version?

[koppor]

When we integrate it in debian, the users will automatically use the latest version. Debian users are lazy. They won't upgrade from 3.8.2 (which is the latest version in debian - see https://packages.debian.org/de/sid/jabref) to our upcoming 5.0 if we don't include it fully in debian. Our deb package is just an ugly workaround.

[darkdragon-001]

Thanks for your work! Looking forward to see 5.x in Debian/Ubuntu!

[koppor]

@darkdragon-001 Thank you for your appretiation. We really need help there. I could guide you from the JabRef side.

[darkdragon-001]

Thanks for your offer. Unfortunately, I am busy with the plenitude of projects I am working on right now and don't have the capacity to step into a new one 😞

[koppor]

Same here. Thus, on hold until someone (including me) changes his priorities.

[buhtz]

btw: If you really woulud upgrade JabRef 3 to 5 in the official debian repositorie you really need to think about to inform the user correct about the transformation of its bib-ifle.

I opened a bug report about that in the past. But my (user) wishes where ignored and it was closed without a fix.
JabRef#3251

[koppor]

@codeberg Found the link 🎉

I try to collect the pointers at JabRef/user-documentation#227

[ThiloteE]

https://github.com/koppor/jabref/blob/master/jabref-in-debian.md.

This link is broken

[koppor]

A push on GitHub branch synching destroyed all my notes. Neither me or @Siedlerchr have a local copy of the old about branch. I think, this data is forever lost.

I need to do everything from scratch 🙈