Hi, I agree that Gradle can be a pain to package software for Debian. According to the documentation of the antonov protobuf gradle plugin [1], the name of the plugin is just "protobuf". Maybe you could try this.
Best regards, Vincent [1] https://github.com/aantono/gradle-plugin-protobuf Le 19/06/2020 à 10:29, Olek Wojnar a écrit : > Java Maintainers, > > Has anyone been able to successfully use Gradle for Debian packaging? > I am finding the experience an exercise in extreme frustration.... > > For example, I have been trying to build grpc-java and it needs the > Gradle Protobuf plugin ("com.google.protobuf"). Seems simple enough, > right? But no, it's not. First of all, the gradle-plugin-protobuf > package that seems like it should provide this plugin instead > provides "ws.antonov.gradle.plugins.protobuf.ProtobufPlugin" although > I had to dig through the jar file to find that. I'm assuming that's > the plugin name since it's listed in > META-INF/gradle-plugins/protobuf.properties as "implementation-class". > However, when I replace > apply plugin: "com.google.protobuf" > with > apply plugin: "ws.antonov.gradle.plugins.protobuf.ProtobufPlugin" > Gradle continues to give me: > * What went wrong: > A problem occurred evaluating project ':grpc-compiler'. > > Plugin with id > 'ws.antonov.gradle.plugins.protobuf.ProtobufPlugin' not found. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get this working?? It > appears that gradle-plugin-protobuf has no reverse depends so I > couldn't even check to see how someone else got it working... I'm > wondering if they gave up. I'm regretting trying to use Gradle in the > first place and thinking I should have just downloaded source jars > from Maven Central and built the package from those... > > Side note: grpc-java also supports building with Bazel and, looking at > the build files, this seems to be a much simpler process. > Unfortunately, I'm doing all this so that we can package Bazel in the > first place so that doesn't really help.... > > Thanks in advance if anyone can shed light on this... > > -Olek
