Re: No junitlauncher in Debian Bullseye

Hi Ronald

On 2022-09-02, Ronald Bergmann wrote:

> this is my first message here and I hope it's the correct place to put
> this. I was trying to install ant and run jUnit tests via ant in
> Debian Bullseye but apparently the junitlauncher jar is not
> available.

The Debian packages of Ant are not provided by the Ant team itself but
rater by volunteers of the Debian community. Looking at
https://packages.debian.org/stable/ant it seems to be a few versions
behind (current is 1.10.12) right now.

> I found ant-optional but it's not in there either. 

The naming might be a bit confusing for historical reasons. Many years
ago Ant's binary distribution contained two jars - ant.jar and
ant-optional.jar - where the later contained all the tasks and types
that had depenencies outside of the Java class library. We later split
ant-optional.jar into several pieces.

junitlauncher may pose a problem to the way Debian dependencies work,
I'm not sure. ant-junit.jar depends on JUnit 3.x or 4.x and probably
doesn't work with JUnit 5.x while ant-junitlauncher.jar depends on JUnit
5.x and doesn't work with JUnit 4.x. Bundling both in one debian package
may pose a problem.

> The binary distribution includes the jar but, if possible, I'd rather
> use apt instead of pulling the binaries (in my container).

You probably need to ask one of the Debian package maintainers. We would
recommend to use our binary release :-)

Cheers

        Stefan