Bug#506018: velocity: adds libraries to /usr/share/ant/lib

[Marcus Better]

Package: velocity
Version: 1.4-5
Severity: serious

velocity adds a bunch of symlinks to the Ant library directory. This
adds those libraries to the "core" class loader of Ant, thus
overriding any classpath specified in the build script.

For instance I just spent hours tracking down a build failure caused
by unwanted inclusion of jdom0.jar instead of the JDOM 1.1 version in
my project.

~$ dpkg -L velocity |grep ant/lib/
/usr/share/ant/lib/werken.xpath.jar
/usr/share/ant/lib/commons-collections.jar
/usr/share/ant/lib/jdom0.jar
/usr/share/ant/lib/logkit.jar
/usr/share/ant/lib/velocity.jar

It seems to me that the Ant lib directory should be reserved for Ant
itself. Other things should be added to the classpath by the
user/admin as neeeded. It is especially bad if a package adds symlinks
for jars belonging to other packages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.5-melech (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages velocity depends on:
ii  ant                          1.7.0-6     Java based build tool like make
ii  default-jre [java2-runtime]  1.5-30      Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii  ibm-j2sdk1.6 [java2-runtime] 1.6.0       Java(TM) JDK, Standard Edition, IB
ii  jamvm [java1-runtime]        1.5.1-3     virtual machine which conforms to 
ii  java-gcj-compat [java2-runti 1.0.78-2    Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  libbcel-java                 5.2-3       Analyze, create, and manipulate (b
ii  libcommons-collections-java  2.1.1-8     A set of abstract data type interf
ii  libjdom0-java                0.9b-3      lightweight and fast library using
ii  liblogkit-java               1.2.2-9     Lightweight and fast designed logg
ii  libwerken.xpath-java         0.9.4-9     JDOM XPath Engine
ii  libxerces2-java              2.9.1-2     Validating XML parser for Java wit
ii  openjdk-6-jre [java2-runtime 6b12-1~exp1 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo
ii  sun-java5-jre [java2-runtime 1.5.0-16-3  Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (
ii  sun-java6-jre [java2-runtime 6-07-4      Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

velocity recommends no packages.

Versions of packages velocity suggests:
pn  velocity-doc                  <none>     (no description available)

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