Re: maven2 for Debian

[Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>]

Arnaud Vandyck wrote:

>> 2. For building Debian packages: This needs to use Debian versions of
>> dependencies.

> Also, we try to have less possible different versions (we try to have
> the latest stable), but with Maven, you can work with older versions
> of a lib. Do we accept this?

IMHO we should deal with it the same way as with any other software: the
packager has to check if it will work with Debian's newer version, and if
yes then we use it.

(Software packaged for Debian should probably not be so fragile that it
breaks after a minor library update.)

Marcus