Re: OpenClinica in Debian-Med

[Sebastian Hilbert <sebastian.hilbert@gmx.net>]

On Friday, November 04, 2011 09:27:48 AM Olivier Sallou wrote:
> Le 11/4/11 9:16 AM, Sebastian Hilbert a écrit :
> > On Thursday, November 03, 2011 03:46:32 PM Olivier Sallou wrote:
> > 
> > It looks like when building OC all of the jars mentioned below are
> > compiled from source anyway.
> 
> I see in trunk it is a maven project [1]
> It gets all dependencies from a maven repository.
> Maven is quite an issue in Debian from my recent experience. While there
> are some helpers to manage this, you need to get
> all dependencies in Debian but also set for maven use.
> 
> For your package, you cannot use the maven repos.
> 
Forgive my ignorance but why is that ?

Anyway I had a quick look and found this:
http://wiki.debian.org/Java/MavenBuilder

is there a policy in Debian that helper scripts need to be used ?

In another email I will describe my thoughts on packaging OC. Please comment 
which parts are not compatible with Debian's way of doing things.

Regards,
Sebastian