Re: maven-rules for plugin version

[Gabriele Giacone <1o5g4r8o@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Claude wrote:
> The third field needs to be maven-plugin, as this is the type of the
> artifact which is going to be affected by this rule. You can use * also,
> it will work but it's less clear.
> About the version, you are forced to specify the actual version of the
> plugin, generic versions such as 'debian' or 1.x are not allowed because
> of the way Maven resolves its plugin dependencies. That means that
> unfortunately if one of the plugin used is upgraded in the Debian
> repository, then we need to update all packages built with that plugin.
Thanks for that confirmation.

Also mh_make generates its maven.rules with:

org.codehaus.mojo exec-maven-plugin maven-plugin 1.1.1 *
org.codehaus.mojo exec-maven-plugin maven-plugin s/.*/1.1.1/

It "applies last if there was no other matches" [1]

Cheers,
Gabriele

[1] man mh_cleanpom