[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#877590: Please help upgrading htsjdk (Was: Bug#877590: FTBFS: error: package org.testng does not exist)

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:05:28PM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> 
>  Failure seems related to not finding the *tags* extension to Test.
>  Seems introduced by scalatest , one of the plugins loaded by graddle.
>  scalatest does not seem to be available in debian.
>  the *tag* element seems to be used to filter tests.
>  
>  One temp option would be to disable tests, at least to check compilation
>  etc... this scalatest has been introduced in this release, was not present
>  in previous one.

Htsjdk seems to be a moving target regarding changes in need of new
dependencies.  I'd say if we can "test" by getting its rdependencies and
thier tests working disabling buildtime tests as long as scalatest might
be packaged (did you contacted debian-java list about this) might be an
acceptable solution in the short run.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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