Bug#988312: libslf4j-java: misses liblog4j1.2-java as a dependency

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 2021-05-10 11:23, Pierre Gruet a écrit :

> Version 1.7.30-1 of libslf4j does not declare liblog4j1.2-java as a 
> dependency,
> it is only declared within the "Suggests:" field in debian/control.
> 
> Yet the classes of liblog4j1.2-java are needed by many classes in
> slf4j-migrator.jar, slf4j-log4j12.jar, log4j-over-slf4j.jar. 
> log4j:log4j is
> also a declared dependency with scope runtime in slf4j-log4j12/pom.xml.
> For this reason, other projects depending on the artifact slf4j-log4j12 
> fail to
> resolve log4j:log4j:1.2.x.

The dependency on log4j is only suggested because it's optional. The 
right
solution I think it to move slf4j-log4j12 into its own 
libslf4j-log4j12-java
package with a hard dependency on liblog4j1.2-java.

Emmanuel Bourg