Re: Maven packages in Debian (was Re: Progress in preparing the Bazel Build System for Debian (COVID-19 Biohackathon follow-up))

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:33:07PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > I remember times when such a web page (actually some autogenerated text
> > file) existed which was **extremely** helpful.  I wished this would be
> > back!
> >
> > > … I just volunteerd, didn’t I?
> 
> Here you are:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Java/MavenPkgs

Looks pretty helpful!
 
> Sponsored by ⮡ tarent, see below.

Thanks!

> This is step 1, the list of all Maven packages ⇒ Debian package name.
> It doesn’t go as far as to map Java packages or even classes… yet.
> For this I’d have to download all those packages, extract them and
> look into the JARs. I’d prefer some central service to offer archive
> contents if possible (diffoscope already extracts archives anyway).

Sounds very promising.

Thanks a lot

      Andreas. 

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