Re: A Java Packaging Wishlist

[manfred@mosabuam.com]

I will some more:

- Support Maven builds and be able to read dependencies from the maven  
pom.xml file and translate them to the debian control file entries for  
dependencies and run dependencies.

- have a sort of meta information for provides for the major versions  
of the JDK/JRE e.g. requires/provides java5-runtime, java6-runtime,  
java7-runtime, java5-developmentkit and so on

- have a meta information appservers e.g. requires/provides javaee5-appserver

potentially this could all be based on the JSR numbers where the  
different implementing packages include a provides -  
jsrxxx-implementation

manfred

Quoting Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org>:

> Excellent proposal!
>
> On 5/22/07, Paul Cager <paul-debian@home.paulcager.org> wrote:
> > Late-night, random thoughts about what would be useful for us Debian
> > Java packagers. Any comments?
> >
> > dh_installjars
> > ==============
> >
> > A new debhelper command:
> >
> > * Installs Jars into usr/share/java directory, adding correct
> >  version number suffix (as parsed from the changelog).
> >
> > * Adds required symlink.
> >
> > * Arguments specify required Jars (with or without the version
> >  number suffix), or directories that will be scanned for Jars.
> >
> > * Can read a "jars" file to get the list of jars (in the same
> >  way dh_installdocs reads "docs").
> >
> > If people think this is useful I might email Joey Hess to see if he
> > would be likely to accept a patch.
> >
> >
> > Cdbs Enhancements
> > =================
> >
> > * /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk to add call to
> >  dh_installjars.
> >
> > * Amend ant.mk / ant-vars.mk to install Javadocs in the correct
> >  place (dependent on setting a new DEB_ANT_xx variable).
> >
> > dh_make enhancements
> > ====================
> >
> > * When invoking dh_make (with cdbs option) in a directory with a
> >  build.xml, pkg-java "standard" rules/control files are created,
> >  including a separate "-doc" package etc.
> >
> > * When invoked with a pom.xml a pkg-java standard package is created,
> >  and the pom is parsed to fill out skeleton entries in control,
> >  copyright etc:
> >
> >    - authors
> >    - licenses
> >    - download location / svn repos
> >    - dependencies
> >
> >
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