Re: Gradle and transitive dependencies

[Christopher Hoskin]

Dear Emmanuel,

Yes, that works in this case.

For the benefit of anyone with a similar problem, the issue arises in this
case because by default, gradle-debian-helper only applies its ruleset if
the version isn't already generic (i.e. 'debian' or ends in '.x'). Since
the transitive dependency org.apache.commons:commons-lang already has a
generic version 3.x, the maven.rules are not applied, so I cannot override
the version there.

An alternative approach would be to use quilt to patch the build.gradle
file to include:

subprojects {
    configurations.all {
        resolutionStrategy {
            force 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:debian'
        }
    }
}

Thanks again.

Christopher