[Debian-med-packaging] Htsjdk changed to gradle - please help (Was: Trying to update htsjdk but some tests are failing)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 09:24:37AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:49:42AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> >   I just retry to build the current git in a up-to-date
> > amd64 sid schroot environment. The build has been sucessful...
> > Do you try in a clean chroot ? On which architecture ?
> 
> I always (at least when reporting here) build in a clean chroot on
> amd64.  The good news is that the Git repository builds for me now es
> well - may be some temporary issue with some Build-Dependencies.
> 
> I'll take over and will try with the latest version (2.5.0).  If I
> observe anything strange I'll report back.

I'm not sure whether it was a brilliant plan to go for 2.5.0 since
upstream has changed the build system from ant to gradle.  I tried to
cope with this but as I was afraid I did not succeeded.  I have no
experience at all with gradle and we are probably hit by the fact that
we need to build in offline mode but some modules need to be loaded.  I
simply removed these modules from build.gradle but this was obviouly to
simple and ended up in

...
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/build/htsjdk-2.5.0+dfsg/build.gradle' line: 49

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'htsjdk-2.5.0+dfsg'.
> Could not find method gitVersion() for arguments [] on root project 'htsjdk-2.5.0+dfsg'.
...


Any idea from a more experienced Java / Gradle person?

Kind regards

       Andreas.


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