Re: Maven 3.x in experimental

[Manfred Moser <manfred@mosabuam.com>]

On 11-12-30 07:45 AM, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote:
> Hi Java team!
>
> Maven 3.x is now available in experimental in a new _maven_ debian package.
> You'll also need updated _maven2_ package (>= 2.2.1-11) to allow side-by-side
> installation (I'm using alternatives to allow user to choose between "mvn" cli
> tool).
>
> Please test and report any issue. I'm especially interrested in FTBFS w/ maven
> 3 or wrong plugin version.
>
> Roadmap (I'm looking for help here :) :
> - update toolchain (maven-ant-helper, maven-debian-helper) to allow packages
> to build with maven 3.x
> - update plugins to be in sync with upstream (maybe allowing multiple plugins
> version in archive... ?)

That idea has been shot down many times in the past ... might not be 
worth to try for it again..

- made maven 3 default for wheezy (open question... AFAIK, Fedora 
already switched)

Maven 3 is MUCH better than Maven 2 and I think it would be a great idea 
to make it the default replacing Maven 2 .. upstream has no development 
on Maven 2.

manfred
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