This is a bit of a newby question. What I'm wondering is whether one can use the debian package system as a kind of build system. Let me illustrate with an example, say for example I want to write an app and package it with debian and this app uses Hibernate, then I would like to declare a dependency on the hibernate libary package and start developing in eclipse right away.
Right now I see that hibernate is available as a library package that has put jars in /usr/share/java. If I depend on these jars and write a unit test I discover that there are more dependencies, I need some of the apache commons libraries and the log4j library, but I can't see those as dependencies. I'm guessing what I want is a vanilla java library debian source package and a plugin for eclipse that understands how to read the build dependencies, but I would not like to have to rediscover the dependencies of the hibernate, they should have been specified by the package maintainer for that system, and I should get them for free. I would also be nice to be able to get the source in a package called for example: libhibernate3-java-dev or libhibernate3-java-dbg that would make go-to-definition work much better in eclipse. Is any of this possible with Debian? What should I be reading? Are there examples I can look at? Are there forums where the strategy for java and debian is being discussed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
