Bug#858561: maven needs to have a metapackage to install all the libraries

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 23/03/2017 à 15:20, shirish शिरीष a écrit :

> There doesn't seem to be a metapackage to install all maven library
> packages and have to install them manually which is time-consuming.
> 
> Could something be done about it ?

Hi Shirish,

What do you mean by "install all maven library packages" ? 'apt-get
install maven' will install everything necessary to run the mvn executable.

Emmanuel Bourg

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Bug#858561: maven needs to have a metapackage to install all the libraries

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 23/03/2017 à 16:11, shirish शिरीष a écrit :

> Just $ sudo aptitude install maven or $ sudo apt-get install maven
> install maven only, I meant the libraries and plugin like -
> 
> I wish all those plugins could be installed by a metapackage or is
> there and perhaps I'm not aware of it ?

These libraries are only used to build other packages without an
internet connectivity as required by the Debian policy. But in a normal
use case, the libraries are downloaded from the Maven Central repository
as usual. You are free to use the plugins packaged by Debian of course,
but you'll have to install them manually as you did. A metapackage would
be too broad and would probably pull all the Java library packages in
Debian, that doesn't seem desirable.

Emmanuel Bourg

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Bug#858561: maven needs to have a metapackage to install all the libraries

[shirish शिरीष]

Reply at bottom :-

On 23/03/2017, Emmanuel Bourg  wrote:
> Le 23/03/2017 à 15:20, shirish शिरीष a écrit :
>
>> There doesn't seem to be a metapackage to install all maven library
>> packages and have to install them manually which is time-consuming.
>>
>> Could something be done about it ?
>
> Hi Shirish,
>
> What do you mean by "install all maven library packages" ? 'apt-get
> install maven' will install everything necessary to run the mvn executable.
>
> Emmanuel Bourg
>
>

Dear Emmanuel,

Just $ sudo aptitude install maven or $ sudo apt-get install maven
install maven only, I meant the libraries and plugin like -

> aptitude search maven 
>[94%]
p   antlr3-gunit-maven-plugin
- Maven plugin for gUnit, a unit test framework for ANTLR grammars
p   antlr3-maven-plugin
- Maven plugin for ANTLR 3
p   antlr3.2-gunit-maven-plugin
- Maven plugin for gUnit, a unit test framework for ANTLR grammars
p   antlr3.2-maven-plugin
- Maven plugin for ANTLR 3.2
p   antlr4-maven-plugin
- Maven plugin for ANTLR 4
p   jruby-maven-plugins
- Maven plugins to handle Ruby gems in a Maven compatible way
i   libangular-maven-plugin-java
- Angular Maven Plugin
i   libantlr-maven-plugin-java
- Maven ANTLR Plugin
i   libaspectj-maven-plugin-java
- AspectJ compiler Maven Plugin
i   libavro-maven-plugin-java
- Apache Avro Maven plugin
i   libbuild-helper-maven-plugin-java
- Build Helper Maven Plugin
p   libbuild-helper-maven-plugin-java-doc
- Documentation for Build Helper Maven Plugin
i   libclojure-maven-plugin-java
- Clojure plugin for Maven
i   libdoxia-maven-plugin-java
- Maven plugin for Doxia
i   libhawtjni-maven-plugin-java
- HawtJNI Maven Plugin
i   libjarjar-maven-plugin-java
- Maven plugin to repackage third-party jars
i   libjavacc-maven-plugin-java
- maven plugin which uses JavaCC to process JavaCC grammar files
i   libmaven-ant-tasks-java
- use Maven's artifact handling features from Ant
i   libmaven-antrun-extended-plugin-java
- Extended integration between Maven and Ant
p   libmaven-antrun-extended-plugin-java-doc
- Documentation for extended integration between Maven and Ant
i   libmaven-antrun-plugin-java
- Maven AntRun Plugin
i   libmaven-archiver-java
- Archiver component for Maven
p   libmaven-archiver-java-doc
- Archiver component for Maven - API documentation
i   libmaven-assembly-plugin-java
- Maven Assembly Plugin
i   libmaven-bundle-plugin-java
- Maven plugin to handle artifact OSGi metadata
p   libmaven-bundle-plugin-java-doc
- Maven plugin to handle artifact OSGi metadata - documentation
i   libmaven-clean-plugin-java
- Maven clean plugin
p   libmaven-clean-plugin-java-doc
- Maven clean plugin - API documentation
i   libmaven-common-artifact-filters-java
- Maven Common Artifact Filters
p   libmaven-common-artifact-filters-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven Common Artifact Filters
i   libmaven-compiler-plugin-2.5-java
- Maven Compiler plugin
p   libmaven-compiler-plugin-2.5-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven Compiler Plugin
i   libmaven-compiler-plugin-java
- Maven Compiler plugin
p   libmaven-compiler-plugin-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven Compiler Plugin
i   libmaven-dependency-analyzer-java
- Maven Dependency Analyzer
i   libmaven-dependency-plugin-java
- Maven Dependency Plugin
i   libmaven-dependency-tree-java
- Maven Dependency Tree
p   libmaven-dependency-tree-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven Dependency Tree
i   libmaven-deploy-plugin-java
- Maven Deploy plugin
i   libmaven-doxia-tools-java
- utilities for integrating Doxia in Maven
p   libmaven-doxia-tools-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven Doxia Integration Tools
i   libmaven-ear-plugin-java
- Maven EAR Plugin
i   libmaven-ejb-plugin-java
- Maven EJB Plugin
i   libmaven-embedder-java
- Maven Embedder
p   libmaven-embedder-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven Embedder
i   libmaven-enforcer-plugin-java
- Maven build rule execution framework
i   libmaven-exec-plugin-java
- Maven Exec Plugin
i   libmaven-file-management-java
- Maven File Management API
p   libmaven-file-management-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven File Management API
i   libmaven-filtering-java
- Maven Filtering
i   libmaven-indexer-java
- Maven :: Indexer
i   libmaven-install-plugin-java
- Maven install plugin
p   libmaven-install-plugin-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven Install Plugin
i   libmaven-invoker-java
- Maven Invoker
i   libmaven-invoker-plugin-java
- Maven Invoker Plugin
i   libmaven-jar-plugin-java
- Maven Jar Plugin
p   libmaven-jar-plugin-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven Jar Plugin
i   libmaven-javadoc-plugin-java
- Maven Javadoc Plugin
i A libmaven-parent-java
- Maven metadata for Apache Maven itself
i   libmaven-plugin-testing-java
- Maven Plugin Testing
p   libmaven-plugin-testing-java-doc
- Documentation for Maven Plugin Testing
i   libmaven-plugin-tools-java
- Maven Plugin Tools
i   libmaven-processor-plugin-java
- Maven plugin to 

Bug#858561: maven needs to have a metapackage to install all the libraries

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: maven
Version: 3.3.9-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
There doesn't seem to be a metapackage to install all maven library
packages and have to install them manually which is time-consuming.

Could something be done about it ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IN.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages maven depends on:
ii  default-jre-headless [java7-runtime-headless]2:1.8-58
ii  libmaven3-core-java  3.3.9-4
ii  openjdk-8-jre-headless [java7-runtime-headless]  8u121-b13-4

maven recommends no packages.

maven suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


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