Packaging mustangproject

[Julien Plissonneau Duquène]

Hi Mechtilde,

Le 2025-02-02 17:28, Mechtilde Stehmann a écrit :
> 
> I discovered that most of the dependencies are not defined in the 
> pom.xml files.
> 
> What is the proper way to handle it? To patch the *.xml files in a 
> patch queue? Or is therer a better way?

It depends on what the dependency is needed for. You could take a look 
at how commons-io [1] is packaged, as it is a rather simple, clean and 
typical package. It uses dh --buildsystem=maven aka the 
maven-debian-helper [2] which in turn uses the maven-repo-helper [3].

In the case of commons-io, all the extra unnecessary dependencies were 
simply added to maven.ignoreRules. The maven-debian-helper has its own 
way of patching the POMs independently of the usual patch queue.

For more complicated situations you may have to patch the POMs in other 
ways (e.g. with the patch queue), patch the source code to remove 
references to the missing libraries (which usually also means removing 
features), or even package the missing dependencies.

Cheers from Brussels,


[1]: 
https://sources.debian.org/src/commons-io/2.18.0-1/debian/maven.ignoreRules/
[2]: https://wiki.debian.org/Java/MavenDebianHelper
[3]: file:///usr/share/doc/maven-repo-helper/reference.html

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Julien Plissonneau Duquène