Thanks Niles, I will ask debian-java
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: > Jose Gutierrez de la Concha: > > Hi! > > > > I'm upstream developer for zeroc-ice, in one of the packages build from > > this source zeroc-icegridgui, a bug has been reported regarding missing > JAR > > dependencies (Bug#846498). > > > > The package in question uses java:depends but that seems to not work here > > or maybe is not being used correctly: > > > > https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice-debian-packaging/blob/3.6/ > debian/control#L290-L293 > > > > dpkg produces a warning dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of > package > > zeroc-icegridgui: unknown substitution variable ${java:Depends} > > > > What is the correct way to declare the dependencies for JARs include in > > separate packages? > > > > Regards, > > José > > > > Hi, > > I would recommend asking in debian-j...@lists.debian.org. :) > > From memory, you need a java specific helper tool for these. Which one > you need depends on the exact package and I am not entirely sure that > all build systems have support. > Which leads us back to my recommendation of asking the debian-java > team. :) > > Thanks, > ~Niels > > -- José Gutiérrez de la Concha ZeroC, Inc.
