Re: org/w3c/dom duplicates in lib-dom-java and lib-openxml-java,libxerces-java!

[Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net>]

0> In article <01053010282003.00794@catv6142>,
0> Egon Willighagen <URL:mailto:egonw@subdimension.com> ("Egon") wrote:

Egon> working on dh_java i encountered this:
Egon>
Egon> Duplicate library path: org/w3c/dom in both lib-dom-java and
Egon> lib-openxml-java,libxerces-java!
Egon>
Egon> In other words, the org.w3c.dom classes are given in three
Egon> packages...  They probably have some version differences, but
Egon> it seem not correct that this redundancy is available...
Egon>
Egon> More practical, when doing dh_java, it is not possible to
Egon> determine which packages it relies on...

Surely then the dependency will be on "( lib-dom-java | lib-openxml-java
| libxerces-java )", since having any of those will satisfy the runtime?
Though if there are version differences, you could end up having to
introspect them all to find which ones will link with your package.  :-(

But I think the right way is to keep the interfaces package separate,
and have it depend on a virtual implementation package that's provided
by the actual implementations.

If there are indeed different versions of the org.w3c.dom interfaces,
then versioned dependencies/conflicts are probably appropriate for the
implementation packages.