Re: Developing with Java on Debian

[Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>]

Richard wrote:
> This is a bit of a newby question.
> 
> What I'm wondering is whether one can use the debian package system as
> a kind of build system. Let me illustrate with an example, say for
> example I want to write an app and package it with debian and this app
> uses Hibernate, then I would like to declare a dependency on the
> hibernate libary package and start developing in eclipse right away.
> 
> Right now I see that hibernate is available as a library package that
> has put jars in /usr/share/java. If I depend on these jars and write a
> unit test I discover that there are more dependencies, I need some of
> the apache commons libraries and the log4j library, but I can't see
> those as dependencies.

So report a bug against the hibernate package: it certainly should
require all of its dependencies.

Andrew.