I wrote 2 Debhelper plugins for easing maintenance of packages with Maven artifacts. They are in a new package called "maven-repo-helper-extras" [1].
"mh_shlibdeps" works just like "dh_shlibdeps". It examines the Maven artifacts installed by a package and generate "${maven:Depends}" in a "<package>.substvars" file.
"mh_genlaunchers" generates a Java program launcher script based on a "<package>.maven-launchers" file. It has a syntax like:
usr/bin/mh_shlibdeps org.debian.maven.Shlibdeps org.debian:maven-debian-utils:debian
This file specifies the launcher location, main class name and the Maven artifact providing said main class.
The reason why I invented a new project instead of adding them to "maven-repo-helper" is that I wanted to implement it using upstream code (e.g. maven-resolver [2]) and in pure Java (without shell script like "javahelper").
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/seamlik-guest/maven-repo-helper-extras
[2]: https://maven.apache.org/resolver
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