[SoC] UbuntuGIS Weekly Report 7 - and java packaging paradigms

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Jerome,
Thanks for your report.
I was chatting with Jody (CCed) ~ a week ago, who explained that 
geotools is typically is broken up into multiple .war files, of which a 
subset are then packaged into java projects. This results in less of the 
geotools library being included in a downstream application, but also 
means that the same code is packaged multiple times.

This different in concept to the debian packaging paradigm.
I suspect this may result in version mismatches between downstream projects.

With regards to the paradigm we chose for OSGeo-Live, I'd be inclined to 
err toward the .deb process, but am prepared to be convinced otherwise.

On 8/07/2014 11:40 am, jlarouche at mapgears.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last week I was away for a bit and didn't have as much time as I wanted to work on my GSoC Project, I'll make up for it this week.
>
> I continued my work on packaging some deps like git-commmit-version for Geotools.
>
> This week I try to package one of the other java apps proposed in an older report and try repackage already available Java Package on Debian with the pom.xml file so it can be used with Maven Debian Helper.
>

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