Hi David, On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:41:53PM +0100, David Bernard wrote: > zinc is optional at runtime, but required at build time (part of the code > depends of it).
That actually was my question: Do you see any chance to patch the code to not require zinc at build time. If I do not intend to use it at runtime from my naive point of view it should be possible to exclude it at build time as well. > I don't know the package policy of Debian (I use ArchLinux). Is it > mandatarory to build every package (like in a gentoo)? Yes. > If yes you'll have > to build all the dependency of plugin, jars, ... from source and install > them into a maven repository. It's a crazy task (including that some of > jar, like scala, are not build with maven). And you'll have to create a > package for every dependencies (directs + transitives). Well, we have a certain amount of dependencies packaged and we might need some more. > Do you plan to create a debian package for each artifacts listed via > https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/analyze-mojo.html > of the gatk project and its plugins ? ( I didn't read the full conversation > yet). Only for those that are really required to build the project and to run without restrictions in functionality. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de