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

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Ludovic
Claude<ludovic.claude at laposte.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Marcus,
>
> I propose to break the package velocity in 2 parts:
> velocity: contains velocity.jar and related stuff
> velocity-ant: contains the links to be installed in /usr/share/ant/lib/
> for the velocity Ant tasks
>
> The rational is that if you install Velocity, you may not always want to
> use the ant tasks, but if you install velocity-ant, then you know that
> you will use the ant tasks, and having all the jars in the ant lib
> directory means less configuration for you.

It doesn't make sense to split the jar in two. Because that means we
are deviating from upstream. We will have to carry that difference
perhaps indefinitely. I would rather just drop links created in ant
directory because it breaks ant and also the dependency on ant (bug
#532640).


Cheers,
Onkar