Re: Correct way to detect JAR dependencies

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Jose Gutierrez de la Concha:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm upstream developer for zeroc-ice, in one of the packages build from
> this source zeroc-icegridgui, a bug has been reported regarding missing JAR
> dependencies (Bug#846498).
> 
> The package in question uses java:depends but that seems to not work here
> or maybe is not being used correctly:
> 
> https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice-debian-packaging/blob/3.6/debian/control#L290-L293
> 
> dpkg produces a warning dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package
> zeroc-icegridgui: unknown substitution variable ${java:Depends}
> 
> What is the correct way to declare the dependencies for JARs include in
> separate packages?
> 
> Regards,
> José
> 

Hi,

I would recommend asking in debian-java@lists.debian.org. :)

>From memory, you need a java specific helper tool for these.  Which one
you need depends on the exact package and I am not entirely sure that
all build systems have support.
  Which leads us back to my recommendation of asking the debian-java
team. :)

Thanks,
~Niels