Could we have a new package that installs a symlink to the ivy jar in a location that ant can use?

Bug #1171668 reported by i30817
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ivy (Debian)
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ivy (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Currently install both ant and ivy and try to use ivy on a ant script without setting a special classpath and it spits out:
This appears to be an antlib declaration.

This appears to be an antlib declaration.
Action: Check that the implementing library exists in one of:
        -/usr/share/ant/lib
        -/home/foo/.ant/lib
        -a directory added on the command line with the -lib argument

What people 'do' is to copy the ivy.jar to one of those dirs.

Two options for fixing this:
ant install installs a special ivy package /usr/share/ant/lib, the old ivy package is end-of-lifed for those projects that are using ivy without ant? Considering ivy _is_ a ant plugin, maybe not many at all?

installing the ivy package places a symlink from ivy.jar to /home/foo/.ant/lib

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ivy 2.2.0-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 23 01:43:46 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-22 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130421)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ivy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
i30817 (i30817) wrote :
Changed in ivy (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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