Bug#871764: snappy-java: Make source package bootstrappable

[Daniel Schepler]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
> Good point. I think plexus-archiver should be modified such that the
> snappy dependency becomes optional. I don't think it's used anyway.
> Would that fix the bootstrapping issue?

I believe it would - in my recent experience, once openjdk-8 was
bootstrapped, and I downloaded all the Architecture: all dependencies
of maven-debian-helper, that was the only thing keeping
maven-debian-helper from being installable.
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Daniel Schepler