Hi Emmanuel, On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 05:19:05PM +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > Unknown command-line option '--console'. > > I guess you backported gradle-debian-helper to Jessie too?
I simply tested on a Jessie machine installing gradle-debian-helper from testing on it. May be it is sufficient to simply backport gradle-debian-helper? > In this case > just remove the --console parameter in gradle.pm [1] and it will work > better. I commited a jessie-backports branch to gradle-debian-helper where I implemented your suggested change[2]. Unfortunately this seems not be sufficient: ... Analysing gradle-dependency-placeholder/pom.xml... > dpkg --search /usr/share/maven-repo/org/gradle/gradle-base-services/*/* dpkg failed to execute successfully Offline mode. Give up looking for package containing /usr/share/maven-repo/org/gradle/gradle-base-services Nov 17, 2015 9:54:32 AM org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver$ToResolve resolve SEVERE: Cannot resolve dependencies in ./gradle-helper-plugin/pom.xml: Dependency not found org.gradle:gradle-base-services:jar:2.5 ERROR: pom.xml: dependency is not packaged in the Maven repository for Debian: org.gradle:gradle-base-services:2.5 -------- Some problems were found in this project, exiting... ... I admit simply backporting the gradle debhelper would solve my problem quite elegantly since I think the final target libejml-java[3] does not depend from any specific gradle version (at least I can not find it in the docs). In case it might turn out to complicated to port gradle-debian-helper is there any chance to override dh_auto_build with a gradle call that works under Jessie as well? (As I said in my initial mail I definitely need to backport the resulting package to Jessie once it might be available in testing - which does not seem to become clear to every reader.) Emmanuel, thanks for your always prompt and helpful responses when I have some Java issues Andreas. > [1] > https://sources.debian.net/src/gradle-debian-helper/1.1/gradle-helper-plugin/src/main/perl/gradle.pm/#L26 [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/gradle-debian-helper.git/tree/debian/patches/jessie-backport.patch?h=jessie-backports [3] git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-java/libejml-java.git -- http://fam-tille.de