Bug#543327: junit4 has dropped ant jar

[Damien Raude-Morvan]

Hi all!

>> I believe we are talking in context of Debian. Since we were talking
>> about the installation of junit4 and ant in Debian.
>> And the 1st solution I provided (which you quoted here) can apply to
>> any package maintainer.
>
> Exactly.  All the world's a Debian package.  Except I'm just a user in
> this
> context, and a relatively clueless one, at that.
>
>> Overriding ant properties is a generic thing,
>> nothing specific to Debian.
>
> Quite true, but debhelper and cdbs are.

I think there is some misunderstanding here :)

Onkar suggests some structure like this in *your* project :
 * build.xml : use ${lib.dir}/junit.jar
 * build.properties : define lib.dir=lib/
 * lib/junit.jar : your own JUnit jar
(with all that your project will be portable accros distro and OS)

Given that, Onkar said that, if some DD wants to package *your* project,
it will either :
#1 use an override to set "lib.dir=/usr/share/java/"
#2 use a tool like CDBS to set ant classpath via DEB_JARS

But maybe you're working on an internal/non-free-software project and have
no need for Debian packaging :)

FYI, Ant upstream authors recommends [1] to use <classpath> attribute for
<junit> task instead of relying on Ant Classpath.

So, to conclude on this :
- You may use an explicit junit.jar (using properties or classpath as your
prefer)
- I'll not restore this link to /usr/share/ant/lib/
- I'll add a NEWS.Debian about this in next upload

[1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#optionalTasks

Kinds regards,
-- 
Damien Raude-Morvan / www.drazzib.com