Re: Change in default behaviour in maven-debian-helper
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Hello Daniel,
If you use a recent version of maven-debian-helper and the mh_make
tool to package your project, then --java-lib option should have been
included in the generated .poms file.
Ludovic
On 08/29/2012 06:55 PM, Daniel Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 13:32 +0100, James Page wrote:
>> Hi Ludovic
>>
>> On 21/02/12 22:08, Ludovic Claude wrote:
>>> The new behaviour of maven-debian-helper seems more correct. I
>>> think that for most cases, you explicitely add --java-lib
>>> option to publish your jar in /usr/share/java, but there are
>>> cases where a jar is private, for example Ant or Eclipse
>>> plugins. In such cases, you can create a link to a custom
>>> location (with the third argument to mh_installjar) or install
>>> the jar in that custom location (using - --dest-jar=<path>) and
>>> let mh_installjar create a link for the jar in the Maven
>>> repository.
>>>
>>> Please file bug reports for those packages which are broken by
>>> this change, I tried to fix such packages some time ago but
>>> there are still some problems in packages I don't know.
>>
>> It would be nice the m-d-h made more intelligent decisioning on
>> whether to install to /usr/share/java or not.
>>
>> For example, if the binary package name that m-d-h is targetting
>> is named libXXX-java, it would make sense to automatically
>> install to /usr/share/java. If the package is not a libXXX-java
>> package then it a) does not want to install to usj or b) has to
>> do it explicitly with --java-lib.
>>
>> Lintian checks that libXXX-java packages install jar files to
>> /usr/share/java - I don't think mdh should be breaking that
>> rule!
>>
>> I'd be happy to work up a patch to implement this functionality
>> (feel it might be a better spend of time rather than continually
>> finding packages which don't use --java-lib).
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> That would be great. I just got bitten by forgetting --java-lib on
> a libXXX-java package because mdh was being so wonderfully helpful
> I thought it would have done this for me.
>
> Daniel
>
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