Re: resolving maven dependencies
Thomas,
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> wrote:
> Eugene Zhukov:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to maven-debian-helper and maven-repo-helper. I'm trying to
>> package xslthl-2.1.0.
>> I built initial package structure with mh_make, and it was able to
>> find necessary jars in /usr/share/java,
>> but I filed to define some rules for those jars to be added to local maven
>> repo.
>> So now, when I try to debuild the package I get message about missing
>> artifacts.
>>
>> Adding those dependencies to local maven repo manually of course solves the
>> problem,
>
> Hi Eugene,
>
> Which jars (from which debian packages) did you move to the local maven repo?
> By local maven repo mean the repo at /usr/share/maven-repo?
>
> If there are jars in /usr/share/java which are not also present in
> /usr/share/maven-repo then this is most likely an issue of the respective
> Debian package. Please fill a bug against the debian package in this case so
> that somebody can update the package to provide maven artifacts.
That's the whole point. Maven is not part of the requirements from
Debian Java policy.
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/
There is absolutely no requirement for a packager to include the maven
stuff within a java package AFAIK.
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