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Re: Packaging maven-scala-plugin (Was: Help needed for gatk)



Hi David,

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:41:53PM +0100, David Bernard wrote:
> zinc is optional at runtime, but required at build time (part of the code
> depends of it).

That actually was my question:  Do you see any chance to patch the code
to not require zinc at build time.  If I do not intend to use it at
runtime from my naive point of view it should be possible to exclude it
at build time as well.
 
> I don't know the package policy of Debian (I use ArchLinux). Is it
> mandatarory to build every package (like in a gentoo)?

Yes.

> If yes you'll have
> to build all the dependency of plugin, jars, ... from source and install
> them into a maven repository. It's a crazy task (including that some of
> jar, like scala, are not build with maven). And you'll have to create a
> package for every dependencies (directs + transitives).

Well, we have a certain amount of dependencies packaged and we might
need some more.
 
> Do you plan to create a debian package for each artifacts listed via
> https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/analyze-mojo.html
> of the gatk project and its plugins ? ( I didn't read the full conversation
> yet).

Only for those that are really required to build the project and to run
without restrictions in functionality.
 
Kind regards

     Andreas.

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