Re: Intended use of ${maven:CompileDepends}

Hi Sebastiaan,

Le 11/11/2023 à 09:15, Sebastiaan Couwenberg a écrit :
> What's the intended use of the ${maven:CompileDepends} substvar?
> 
> It shouldn't be added to Depends nor Built-Using. The dpkg-gencontrol 
> warning makes it very tempting to add it to Depends as some package in 
> the archive have incorrectly done.
> 
> I've resorted to stripping it from the generated substvars file before 
> dh_gencontrol to get rid of the warning, but it seems better to do this 
> in maven-debian-helper.

I'll have to check but I think the intended use of 
${maven:CompileDepends} is for packaging parent poms, in this case you 
want the plugin dependencies to appear in the Depends field of the package.

Emmanuel Bourg