Ivy Debian Helper

This project contains helper tools to ease the packaging of Ivy based projects in Debian. It consists in:

• an Ivy plugin resolving the dependencies against the system Maven repository (/usr/share/maven-repo). The resolver uses the same Maven rule files that maven-debian-helper and maven-repo-helper employ (debian/maven.rules, debian/maven.ignoreRules).

• a debhelper class initializing the plugin and running Ant+Ivy in offline mode.

Usage

1. Add a build dependency on ivy-debian-helper in debian/control

2. Use a debian/rules file with:

   %:
           dh $@ --buildsystem=ivy

3. Create debian/maven.rules and/or debian.maven.ignoreRules with the dependency rules

Limitations

• Transitive dependencies with a non generic version (neither 'debian' nor '.x') must be added to debian/maven.rules in order to preserve the version (with a rule like: org.foo bar * * * *)