• Diff for "Java/DevJam/2010/FosdemProposedTalks/JavaPackaging"

Topics to talk about at FOSDEM 2010 regarding Debian-Java:

• Status of Java Policy
• Status of maven-repo
• Merge of javahelper and maven-repo-helper?
• CDBS vs. Debhelper7, dh -with maven?
• why it's useful to package Java software, Java packaging is way behind python packaging
• Bridging two great packaging systems: Debian apt and Maven
• OSGi in Debian: the promise of always on, always up-to-date systems
• Problem of multiple dot versions of libraries
• How to be a good java upstream
  • Have a tar.gz without precompiled stuff and convenience copies of code
  • document, where your dependencies where downloaded from
  • make your build.xml configurable
    • possibility to point to an external directory with jars
    • maybe provide a variable at the first position of your classpath which can also be used by developers to place override jars
    • possibility to easily exclude parts of the build for which we don't have the dependencies yet
    • possibility to easily exclude some contribs
    • don't assume specific dot versions of your dependencies

  • Maybe provide a page Java/UpstreamHints where we can point upstream to in case we want to suggest something

• Best practices

Best Practices

• short description of a workflow with git, topgit and pristine-tar
• debian/build.xml to avoid patching upstream build.xml
• debian/ant.properties
• ... (add your own ideas)

(un)linkjars

Most upstream tarballs include convenience copies of dependency jars. These can not be used to build debian packages. To avoid patching the upstream build.xml one can also link the required jar files from /usr/share/java to the directories where upstream expects them.

The following snippets help with linking and unlinking the jars. They link only those jars defined in debian/control#Build-Depends and thus also help to get the build depends right. I'd propose to include these snippets in the javahelper package or somewhere alike.

# script to link required jar files from /usr/share/java

DESTINATION=$1

if [ -z $DESTINATION ]
then
  echo "missing destination"
  exit 1
fi

BUILDDEPENDS=$(grep-dctrl --no-field-names --show-field Build-Depends -F source zookeeper debian/control | tr " ," "\n" | grep -v "^$" )

for DEPENDENCY in $BUILDDEPENDS
do
  echo "linking .jar files of $DEPENDENCY:"
  JARS=$(dpkg -L $DEPENDENCY | grep "^/usr/share/java/.*\.jar$")
  for JAR in $JARS
  do
    echo "  link $JAR"
    ln -s $JAR $DESTINATION
  done
done

# debian/rules file using the above script

linkjars:
        dh_testdir
        debian/linkjars.sh lib
        debian/linkjars.sh src/java/lib

unlinkjars:
        dh_testdir
        find lib -lname "/usr/share/java/*.jar" -exec rm {} \;
        find src/java/lib -lname "/usr/share/java/*.jar" -exec rm {} \;