Re: Bug#557685: libspring-web-2.5-java: Add dependencies to classpath
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Damien Raude-Morvan
<damien@raude-morvan.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:09:13 +0530, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde@ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Onkar,
>
>> Please add the dependencies of this package to the classpath so that
>> (build)rdepends don't have to specifically take into consideration those
>> depedencies.
>
> Nice idea, I'll try to do that on Spring Framework JARs (12).
>
> BTW, did someone already used tools out there to automate this ?
> - build 'Class-Path' entry from CDBS DEB_JARS variable (with excluding
> capabilities - junit, antlr, ant-*)
> - or use 'Class-Path' entry from JAR to generate Depends field in
> debian/control
> - or use Maven pom.xml "dependencies" to generate Depends field AND
> 'Class-Path' entry
>
> I've found java-propose-classpath on Debian wiki
> (http://wiki.debian.org/Java/Packaging) but I've never used it.
> And it seems only
>
> Without some tooling, maintaining all this (POM/Depends field/Class-Path
> entry) in sync by hand seems very error-prone.
jh_depends and jh_classpath from javahelper may be useful. I have
never used those tools personally.
Onkar
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