Re: Class Finder

[Arnaud Vandyck <arnaud.vandyck@ulg.ac.be>]

Mark Howard <mh@tildemh.com> wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Mark,

>   I've   been   trying   to    track   down   a   package   containing
> javax.xml.transform.ErrorListener  (required for gjdoc).  Does anybody
> know of one?

libxerces2-java - Validating XML parser for Java

$ cd /usr/share/java
$ jar tvf xmlParserAPIs.jar |grep javax.xml.transform.ErrorListener
   284 Wed Mar 26 12:53:42 CET 2003 javax/xml/transform/ErrorListener.class

>   It would be really useful if  we had a listing somewhere of all Java
> classes contained in Debian packages to help with this sort of thing.

I always ask upstream for dependencies ;)

> Unfortunately, there are two required things for such a script which I
> don't know how to do:
> 1. get a list of binary packages whose source packages build-depend (or
> build-depend-indep) on .*jar
> 2. fetch a binary package without superuser permissions.
> 
> Can anyone help?

I'd like but don't know how yet :'(

-- Arnaud Vandyck, STE fi, ULg
   Formateur Cellule Programmation.