packaging filius

["Andreas B. Mundt" <andi@debian.org>]

Hi,

if it is feasible without too much hassle, I am interested in
packaging filius [1], a (simple) network simulator for education and 
schools.  There is already a RFP [2], but before switching that one to
an ITP, I tried to get a very first proof of concept.

I am new to packaging java applications and after learning a bit
about it from the Debian wiki, I started with 'mh_make'.  After
installing some more dependencies, it looks like most of them are
already available. However, I got stuck with htmlparser [3], which
does not supply the maven meta data in '/usr/share/maven-repo'. 
I tried patching 'pom.xml' like:

                <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.htmlparser</groupId>
                        <artifactId>htmlparser</artifactId>
                        <version>{htmlparser.version}</version>
+                       <scope>system</scope>
+                       <systemPath>/usr/share/java/htmlparser.jar</systemPath>
                </dependency>

but this seems not to work:

[ERROR] /tmp/packaging/filius-master/src/main/java/filius/gui/anwendungssicht/GUIApplicationWebBrowserWindow.java:[51,22]
        package org.htmlparser does not exist

Any ideas what's the culprit?  Are there better ways to give it a try?
Any help/hint is appreciated.

Best regards,

  Andi


[1] https://www.lernsoftware-filius.de/
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/982648
[3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libhtmlparser-java