Am Samstag, den 19.02.2011, 15:45 +0100 schrieb Vincent Fourmond: > Hello all, > > This is an idea that has been there for a long time, but I haven't > had the time yet to implement it, nor even to voice it so far. What > I'm often missing while packaging Java software is a simple too to > find which debian package holds which class. My idea is to provide a > simple alioth service doing just that, potentially with a command-line > tool to interrogate it some time later, although a web interface > should be fine enough. > > My feeling is that using a simple sql database along with crontabs > to update it should be fine. (although I'm unsure for now on which > machine the crontab would run, and how often). Candidate package would > just be those with files in /usr/share/java. > > In the long run, we could consolidate that into real diagnostics: > > * this .jar file in that package directly relies on the > foo.org.Bidule class, but not such class can be found in its > dependencies > * this .jar has that one in its class path, but doesn't rely on it > * careful, the version in unstable of this jar is missing that > method, on which this and that jars are relying... > > Possibilities are countless. > > How do you like the idea ? Can we have it in a package instead? Something equivalent to command-not-found? -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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