[needs-packaging] Frostwire

Upstream has been contacted about problems with the tarball.
The main issue is the inclusion of pre-compiled libraries:

- make the package architecture specific
- invalidates the GPL under which the package is released

Upstream is not responsive on the library issues.

i am going to try to build this one...

Kemel: Have they fixed the precompiled libraries issue?

This been "In Progress" for like a year!

I think there are issues with getting the entire source code.

Setting back to new as nobody seems to be working on this.

Isn't the souce code in sourceforge?
Which libraries aren't provided as source?

I'll try to work on it. This is my first package and I don't have a very large amount of time at the moment, so it'll be slow. Any help would be more than welcome.

Make sure you upload it to www.ubuntuwire.org for help with packaging
and inclusion in ubuntu. :)

Obviously not 'In progress' anymore

Hey what happen with this bug guys?

I'm the mantainer of the .deb that we distribute on our website.
What needs to be done to package this (other than what we have in our package?)

We only have the sources to our code. All the other dependencies should be GPLd as well, but we don't have their sources in our development environment (we just have their .jars and libraries)

Gubatron, please ask in IRC:
irc://chat.freenode.net/ubuntu-motu
I *think* what has to be done is:
1. to package the dependencies separately
2. to state their license clearly

I think that the gpl license does not allow to mix binaries without
source, but I could be wrong!

On 11/9/09, Gubatron <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm the mantainer of the .deb that we distribute on our website.
> What needs to be done to package this (other than what we have in our
> package?)
>
> We only have the sources to our code. All the other dependencies should
> be GPLd as well, but we don't have their sources in our development
> environment (we just have their .jars and libraries)
>
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> [needs-packaging] Frostwire
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94011
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
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The problems are that:
a) GPL does not allow binary libraries to be distributed with your GPL software
b) Libraries should be in a seperate package

So should we create 2 .debs, say

frostwire-x.y.z.deb
frostwire-bin-libs.x.y.z.deb

And make frostwire-bin-libs.x.y.z a requirement for frostwire-x.y.z.deb ?

(between us, wouldn't that be the same thing at the end but in two steps?)

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Fahad Sadah <email address hidden> wrote:

> The problems are that:
> a) GPL does not allow binary libraries to be distributed with your GPL
> software
> b) Libraries should be in a seperate package
>
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So should we create 2 .debs, say

(i) frostwire-x.y.z.i586.deb
(ii) frostwire-libs.x.y.z.i586.deb

And make (ii) a requirement for (i) ? (which sounds like the same thing to me, but in two steps)

We need the original source of the libraries.

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On 14 Nov 2009, at 12:19, Gubatron <email address hidden> wrote:

> So should we create 2 .debs, say
>
> (i) frostwire-x.y.z.i586.deb
> (ii) frostwire-libs.x.y.z.i586.deb
>
> And make (ii) a requirement for (i) ? (which sounds like the same
> thing
> to me, but in two steps)
>
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> [needs-packaging] Frostwire
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94011
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

@Gubatron

You would probably need to make a 64-bit deb too.

Whatever happened to this? Is nobody able to find the lib sources?

Just use gtk-gnutella - same fast speed, c++, exists in debian/ubuntu
repositories :-)

On 5/10/10, Mads Peter Rommedahl <email address hidden> wrote:
> Whatever happened to this? Is nobody able to find the lib sources?
>
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> [needs-packaging] Frostwire
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94011
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
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David, a bit more info please? Have you looked into the required
dependencies and acknowledged that they are free for redistribution
(preferrably with an open source license)?

I've started gathering all the sources for all the dependencies, stay tuned.
https://frostwire.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/frostwire/trunk/lib/jars-src

It's a long ongoing problem that we don't have all the sources for
some of the dependencies.

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On 13 May 2010, at 16:58, Gubatron <email address hidden> wrote:

> I've started gathering all the sources for all the dependencies,
> stay tuned.
> https://frostwire.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/frostwire/trunk/lib/jars-src
>
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> [needs-packaging] Frostwire
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94011
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

Switched In progress -> Confirmed as David doesn't seem to be working on it after all.

We have finished gathering all the sources to every third party dependency.

We're now working on a one step build.xml or Makefile that will compile everything into a .deb package.

However, we have some doubts as to what is it that you really need.

Should we just create a .deb that includes all the sources and it de-compresses in a certain location? say

/usr/lib/frostwire/src

(in case someone needs to build and needs our sources for something else?)

Or you want this .deb which includes all the sources to decompress and execute a makefile that builds everything?

For now we'll create a frostwire-dev.x.y.z.deb or frostwire-src.x.y.z.deb, and it'll include the make file.

FrostWire source packages are finished and ready for your review to be included in Ubuntu.

We've gathered all the 3rd party sources and created a frostwire-src-x.y.z.noarch.deb package.

The file is available for download on our sourceforge.net project page
https://sourceforge.net/projects/frostwire/files/

frostwire-src-4.20.6.noarch.deb 37.3 MB

Please let us know how to proceed from here.

It's best to contact some people at: irc://chat.freenode.net/ubuntu-motu
There are several people that can help you on that channel. :)

This seems to be almost done and most of the hard work done already. What's the progress on this?

Frostwire is in the Ubuntu repositories now.

Are you sure? There aren't any information here:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frostwire
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=frostwire
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=frostwire

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419730
"Your RFP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It hasn't seen any activity for the last 18 months.
- The amount of RFPs on the Debian BTS is huge and we need to
  clean up a bit the place."

I can confirm that it's not in Ubuntu yet.

No work done, because the source includes binary libraries -> REJECTED