Package: maven-debian-helper
Version: 2.6.9
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hello,
I've been working on updating a Clojure source package (ring-clojure)
that builds multiple binaries via a number of POMs andI would very much
like to avoid the need to hardcode the binary package dependencies in
the package control file.
Normally, mh_resolve_dependencies is the right tool for this, but I hit
a bug where it couldn't locate dependencies that are built in the same
source package. Only packages installed in the chroot before starting
the build are detected, resulting in an incomplete maven:Depends substvar.
At the same time, in order to make dependency resolution work with
Leiningen, I already duplicate /usr/share/maven-repo under the
debian/maven-repo directory with additional symlinks for the newly built
artifacts.
Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to point mh_resolve_dependencies to
this "augmented" maven-repo, even though the DependencySolver class
supports a --maven-repo command-line argument.
After some investigation I noticed a code comment that suggest this is a
known issue. So I'd like to submit a patch [0] that does just that: make
the --maven-repo argument work correctly, while of course defaulting to
the normal behavior of using /usr/share/maven-repo.
[0]
https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/maven-debian-helper/-/merge_requests/7
It provides a very handy workaround for some complex multi-POM source
packages that will help ensure the Depends: field is always accurate.
Thank you!
-- Jérôme
