Gradle Debian Helper
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This project contains helper tools to ease the packaging of Gradle based projects in Debian.
It consists in:
 * a Gradle 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 build listener displaying a message periodically to prevent the builders from killing Gradle on slow architectures.
 * a debhelper class detecting Gradle build files, initializing the plugin and running Gradle in offline mode.


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

2. Use a debian/rules file with:

    %:
            dh $@ --buildsystem=gradle

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

4. For building only some subprojects and ignoring the other,
   pass Gradle parameters to dh_auto_build:

    override_dh_auto_build:
            dh_auto_build -- :project1:jar :project2:jar


Limitations
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* Dependencies with a version range are not handled (e.g. org.foo:bar:1.0+)
* 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 * * * *)
