Unable to build debian package with JDeb in a Play Project

[magnusart]

Hi

When using OSX we cannot force the debian build to use JDeb when having a play project. When we build it prints:

Building debian package with native implementation if we remove the Play plugin dependency we instead get Building debian package with java based implementation 'jdeb'.

To avoid using the play version of sbt-native-packager I evicted it from the plugin, but it did not make any difference: addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-plugin" % "2.3.7" exclude("com.typesafe.sbt", "sbt-native-packager"))

It is easy to reproduce:

Using test-project-play-rpm

1. In build.sbt change from RPM to enablePlugins(JDebPackaging)
2. In activator run debian:packageBin and you should see the output Building debian package with native implementation
3. In build.sbt comment out the line enablePlugins(PlayScala)
4. In activator run debian:packageBin again and you will now see the output Building debian package with java based implementation 'jdeb' (not much gets build however).

[muuki88]

Duplicate with #407 #499