Markus Koschany

Started in late 2014, [Debian LTS](https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/ "Debian LTS") exists and has provided additional security support for the Squeeze, Wheezy and Jessie releases. LTS support for Stretch is also planned. In this BoF we want to briefly explain how LTS is done, how you can support it, either finanically or by volunteer work and provide a venue for discussions how to improve it. The targetted audience for this talk is everyone, user, contributor, sysadmin, sponsor, you. Though of course due to the subjects being discussed this will be a quite technical discussion.

Other people: Hugo Lefeuvre Chris Lamb Holger Levsen

You will learn the most important concepts of how games are integrated in the Debian distribution, how many are there and how you can find them. More than 600 games are freely available in the main distribution written in Perl, Java, Haskell, C, C++, Python and other languages. The first 20 minutes will give you an overview about the current state of games in Debian, what is good and what can be improved. During the rest of the time you can ask questions about everything you ever wanted to know about games in Debian. Let's discuss!

The talk gives insights into the state of Java in Debian and what challenges contributors face when we package Java software for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Participants will learn more about how the Java ecosystem is integrated into Debian, what problems have to be solved and how Java software can be truly free and long-term supported. It is brought to you by a Debian Developer and Debian Java team member.

Many applications and libraries distributed by Debian are written in the Java programming language. In fact based on simply counting source code lines, it is ranked in third place only after C and C++. The Java team alone maintains more than one thousand source packages ranging from web servers to IDEs. Packaging Java software can be difficult at times because all packages must be built from source but no internet connections are allowed at build time. None of the packages in the main archive area may require software outside of that area to function thus we have to package every dependency and make sure it complies with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. This is often completely diametral how Java developers usually build software (versioned dependencies downloaded from online repositories like Maven Central). And if you know that Debian prefers to ship only one software version because of security support but different applications tend to depend on different versions at the same time and we also strive for one long-term supported Java Virtual Machine, the possible problems are easily imaginable. Last but not least Java development has become rapider in the past with new OpenJDK versions and bugs every six months. How this all works or not will be told during the next 15 minutes.

You are beginning to learn more about Debian packaging and one of your favorite programming languages is Java. You are already an experienced maintainer or packager but you are unfortunate enough having to package some Java app and you don't know how to start. Never heard of Ant, Maven and Gradle? Then this presentation will hopefully help you to get started quickly by introducing you to the most important Java build systems and methods to make them Debian compliant. This talk is about learning by examples. It will highlight some Java applications and libraries that are already in Debian and demonstrate what you need to do to deliver your own package to your users. I will also talk about some common Java specific packaging errors and how you can avoid them.

This talk is aimed for an audience who wants to learn more about games in Debian. How many are there, how can I find them, what kind of games are available and who maintains them? This presentation will give you a broad overview of the current state of Debian Games. It should give you some ideas what free software games are, who creates them, how they differ from commercial titles and why we should care about them. While the main focus of this talk will be on free software games, I will also discuss tools and programs that make it possible to play commercial games on Linux that were released for different platforms, some of them long forgotten.

The talk is for people interested in Free Software Games who want to learn more about the current state of games and related developer tools in Debian. I will present a short history how the games section developed over time and how it presents itself nowadays and what might happen in the future. I will talk about the Debian Games Blend and how everybody can help to promote and improve games with or without programming skills. While the talk is mainly focused on FOSS games I will also present tools like game-data-packager and how software distribution platforms like Steam have influenced gaming on Linux.