Hi

It would be great if maven-debian-helper could automatically generate
JAR file MANIFEST entries for runtime dependencies for jars that it
creates/installs.

This should be feasible using the dependency information provided
by the upstream pom.xml files.  It's probably worth adding functionality
to disable this if need be as some JAR files (such as maven plugins)
don't have the concept of runtime outside of Maven.

I blogged about a workaround at [0] so it is possible to make this
work by using javahelper; but it would be better if maven-debian-helper
could do this itself.

Regards

James


[0] http://tinyurl.com/6ferf8p