[Pkg-ace-devel] Update Debian to ACE/TAO x.2.3?

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,
 >> Could someone maybe assist me with the steps how to get ACE/TAO x.2.3
>> onto Debian packaging? Would like to include these steps into the
>> release procedure so that when we release a new version we als include
>> the steps to upload that new version to debian.
>
> They are two different issues currently:
>   1. TAO is no longer distributable along with ACE. (See #697848)
>      This is quite challenging, because:
>       * it requires to repackage TAO separately, for non-free+contrib
>         binary packages
>       * this means we will have to find a mechanism (abi compliance
>         checker? Tight build dependencies?) to make sure
>       * we will have to struggle to keep ACE and TAO packaging in line.
>
>   2. ACE is outdated. That's BAU.
>
> Is there anything you can do for 1.? I remember you said sometimes TAO
> IDL compiler license issue will vanish. How far from this are we? What
> about the other license issue with CDR encoding/decoding?

We have created a partly replacement for TAO IDL for some research 
project, but that work hasn't been released in the community yet. Making 
a full replacement is possible, but still a huge amount of work, 
something I don't see happening without someone really funding such an 
effort. The other areas haven't been looked at.

Can we at least see how we can keep ACE updated on debian?

Regards,

Johnny

>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
> #697848 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697848
>
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